How to Love: A Guide to Feelings & Relationships For Everyone
Alex Norris
Isn’t it wonderful when love strikes? When you encounter someone beautiful and interesting and suddenly: feelings. But what do you do when that first crush squashes you flat, when sparks fly but fizzle out, when you and your other half just don’t click together? Enter ‘How to Love’! Your funny, wise and very different guide to relationships of all shapes and sizes, covering topics from singlehood to jealousy to happily ever after – all delivered in Alex Norris’s clever, accessible and bright graphic style.
Welcome to Sex: Your No-Silly-Questions Guide
Melissa Kang
There’s no denying it – sex can be pretty tricky – and talking about it can feel weird and uncomfortable. But it doesn’t have to be! ‘Welcome to Sex!’ is packed with honest advice on everything you need to know. It’s inclusive, reassuring and all about keeping sex fun, real, and shame-free. With case studies, first person accounts and questions from real teens, it will help readers navigate their sexual debuts with confidence!
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Your Gender Book: Helping You Be You!
Ben Pechey and Sam Prentice
If you are at the start of your journey with gender identity, or looking to help someone who is, this insightful guide offers a safe space to celebrate you becoming your true – and most joyful – self. With fun activities, resources and LGBTQ+ role models throughout, this book sheds light on everything from gender identity, sex, pronouns and expression, to barriers, mental health, allyship and finding happiness. Written in Ben Pechey’s trademark witty, upbeat and vibrant style, this empowering tool will help you engage with your gender creatively and become your most authentic self.
Twenty-Four Seconds From Now: A Regular Love Story
Jason Reynolds
Seventeen-year-old Neon is about to have sex with his girlfriend, Aria, for the first time. In 24 seconds to be precise. He’s hiding in the bathroom, nervous, wanting to do everything right. Rewind. To 24 minutes earlier where Neon rushes from work, taking the gift of fried chicken to Aria’s house. Rewind again. To 24 hours earlier when Neon’s big sister has advice about sex which makes him think he probably shouldn’t be listening to his friends. To 24 days earlier. To 24 weeks earlier. To 24 months earlier, when he and Aria first met. This tender, sweet, wholesome piece of fiction discusses how to approach first sex, how to respect women, how to be gentle, how to make it about love. It shows us a refreshingly different side to male sexuality.
Honesto: Tudo o que não te contam sobre sexo, relacionamentos e corpos
Milly Evans e Lucia Picerno
Ser adolescente já é difícil o suficiente sem ter que navegar pelos campos minados da descoberta do sexo, do amor e dos corpos. E sejamos realistas: a educação sexual na escola nem sempre é suficiente. A educadora sexual e jornalista Milly Evans está aqui para ajudar – como uma jovem adulta que ainda está descobrindo a vida, ela sabe exatamente o que os adolescentes estão passando. E ela está aqui com respostas para todas aquelas perguntas que não estão nos livros escolares.
Yay! You’re Gay! Now What?
Riyadh Khalaf
In this personal, heartfelt go-to guide for young queer guys, YouTuber and presenter Riyadh Khalaf shares frank advice about everything from coming out to relationships, as well as interviews with inspirational queer role models, and encouragement for times when you’re feeling low.
It’s Totally Normal! An LGBTQIA+ Guide to Puberty, Sex and Gender
Monica Gupta Mehta
Monica and Asha Mehta work together to answer your most pressing questions. Forget the penis-in-vagina basics – this is a queer friendly guide that’ll have you rethinking the very definition of sex. Combining expert advice with the personal experiences of teens all over the world, prepare to plunge into the topics they don’t cover in sex ed.
Sex Ed: An Inclusive Teenage Guide to Sex and Relationships
The School of Sexuality Education
Written and illustrated by the award-winning team at School of Sexuality Education, who deliver expert workshops for teenagers, here is advice, reliable information and reassurance on sex and relationships… Covering key topics including consent and healthy relationships, sexuality and different kinds of sex, puberty and periods, contraception, porn and sexting, and much more besides!
This book is not only full of advice for teenagers but a brilliant tool for their parents, carers and teachers, supporting all of the new RSE curriculum content, as well as answering FAQs and busting some popular myths along the way.
This Book is Gay
Juno Dawson
Acclaimed YA author Juno Dawson gives an uncensored look at sexual orientation and gender identity. Including testimonials from people across the gender and sexual spectrums, this frank, funny, fully inclusive book explores everything anyone who ever dared to wonder wants to know – from sex to politics, how to pull, stereotypes, how to come-out and more.
Can Everyone Please Calm Down?
Mae Martin
If there’s one area that Mae Martin is 100% anecdotally and personally qualified to tackle, it’s sexuality: should there be any such thing as a ‘sexuality spectrum’, then Mae has probably existed at every point on it at some stage in her life. This book is Mae’s attempt to demystify sexuality by narrating her own often humiliating adventures in sex, dating and gender identity.
Sex Education: A Guide to Life
Covering everything from understanding your anatomy, feeling confident about how you look and understanding how you feel, to consent, sexuality and the minefield that is modern love – this guide answers all the questions you’re too scared to ask, in a language you understand.
What’s the T?
Juno Dawson
Discover what it means to be a young transgender and/or non-binary person in the twenty-first century in this frank and funny guide for 14+ teens, from the author of This Book is Gay. In What’s the T?, Stonewall ambassador, bestselling trans author and former PSHE teacher Juno Dawson defines a myriad of labels and identities and offers uncensored advice on coming out, sex and relationships with her trademark humour and lightness of touch. Juno has also invited her trans and/or non-binary friends to make contributions, ensuring this inclusive book reflects as many experiences as possible, and features the likes of Travis Alabanza and Jay Hulme.
Podemos falar sobre consentimento?
Justin Hancock
What exactly is consent? Why does it matter? How can you respect other people’s boundaries, and have them respect yours?
This book breaks down the basics of how to give and get consent in every aspect of life for readers aged 14 years and older. It’s a powerful word, but not everyone understands exactly what it means. This stylish guide explains clearly why consent matters – for all of us.
With honest explanations by experienced sex and relationships educator Justin Hancock, you’ll learn how consent is a vital part of how we connect with ourselves and our self-esteem, the people close to us and the wider world.
Queer Up: an Uplifting Guide to LGBTQ+ Love, Life and Mental Health
Alexis Caught
In this empowering and uplifting book, award-winning podcaster Alexis Caught sets out to help queer and curious teenagers explore their LGBTQ+ identity and understanding. Alongside the author’s personal experiences are first-hand stories from notable LGBTQ+ figures, providing a inclusive account of what it means to grow up queer. With chapters on questioning, coming out, friends and family, love, sex, shame, pride and allyship, this is insightful, thoughtful and reassuring book is essential reading for any questioning teen and their allies looking to support them.
Coming Out Stories
Emma Goswell
Based on the hugely popular Coming Out Stories podcast, this empowering, humorous and deeply honest book invites you to share one of the most important moments in many LGBTQ+ people’s lives.
Whether you’re gay, pan, queer, bi, trans, non-binary, or an ally, this uplifting go-to resource is filled with helpful advice and tips on what to expect, and inspirational quotes from leading LGBTQ+ figures, to help you live your life as your most authentic self. Welcome to the family!
Welcome to St Hell: My Trans Teen Misadventure
Lewis Hancox
Lewis has a few things to say to his younger teen self. He knows she hates her body. He knows she’s confused about who to snog. He knows she’s really a he and will ultimately realize this. But she’s going to go through a whole lot of mess (some of it funny, some of it not funny at all) to get to that point.
In Welcome to St Hell, author-illustrator Lewis Hancox takes readers on the hilarious, heartbreaking and healing path he took to make it past trauma, confusion, hurt and dubious fashion choices in order to become the man he was meant to be.
The Awesome Autistic Guide for Trans Teens
Yenn Purkis, Sam Rose and Glynn Masterman
Yenn Purkis and Sam Rose set out honest advice and strategies to help autistic trans and/or gender divergent teens to thrive exactly as they are. Covering a huge range of topics including coming out, masking, building a sense of pride and much more, it is an essential resource for living happily and authentically.
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Failosophy For Teens: A Handbook For When Things Go Wrong
Elizabeth Day
Welcome to ‘Failosophy For Teens‘, a warm, practical and empowering guide to those moments when life doesn’t go to plan. Using personal experience and stories shared by guests on her award-winning podcast, How to Fail, Elizabeth Day gently encourages readers to shake off embarrassment, talk openly about failure and celebrate the resilience of surviving failure.
Failing better is the key to learning, growing and ultimately loving yourself as the truly AWESOME human being you are. Failosophy For Teens will challenge your self-perception and change your life!
Be Resilient: How to Build a Strong Teenage Mind For Tough Times
Nicola Morgan
Some events in life will always be out of our control, whether it’s a global crisis or a traumatic event at home – but Be Resilient shows that the power to cope is in our hands. Discover how to develop the skill of mental resilience in this fascinating guide from award-winning author and teenage brain expert Nicola Morgan. From building a support network to building optimism, find positive, practical advice for preparing for, coping with and bouncing back from the toughest of times. Authoritative and backed by the latest science, this is a reassuring companion for teenagers everywhere.
How to Not Lose It: Mental Health Sorted
Anna Williamson
It’s not just your body that should be fit and healthy – your mind needs to be, too! How Not to Lose It is the go-to guide for achieving a balanced mind and strong emotional well-being. This is the go-to guide for achieving a balanced mind and strong emotional well-being. With immediate, heart of the matter advice and a chatty yet honest tone, Anna Williamson addresses all of the key issues affecting children and teens today.
Mind Your Head
Juno Dawson
Covering topics from anxiety and depression to addiction, self-harm and personality disorders, Juno and Olivia talk clearly and supportively about a range of issues facing young people’s mental health – whether fleeting or long-term – and how to manage them, with real-life stories from young people around the world.
You Got This: A Fabulously Fearless Guide to Being You
Bryony Gordon
Sharing 10 crucial life lessons, from self-respect and esteem to body confidence and mental health, this is the ultimate guide to growing up happy for teenage girls.
Abra seu coração: aprenda a amar sua vida e a amar a si mesmo
Gemma Cairney e Aurélia Lange
Repleto de conselhos honestos e práticos da tia Gemma Cairney, especialista em cirurgias, e de uma série de profissionais treinados e pessoas reais, "Abra Seu Coração" é um livro de grande ajuda. De desilusões e sofrimentos à imagem corporal e tudo o mais, ele ajudará você a aprender a amar seu corpo, seus amigos e sua família, e lhe dirá o que fazer se as coisas derem errado.
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