Hang-ups, Hook-ups, and Holding Out
You
ask your parents tons of questions everyday, from “Can I sleep
in for five more minutes?” to “What’s for dinner tonight?” However,
there are some questions that you may be a little more apprehensive to
ask, like questions about the changes in your body, your friendships
and relationships, and the decisions you begin to face when you reach
adolescence. That’s where Drs. Melisa Holmes and Trish Hutchinson
come in with their new Girlology book, Hang-ups, Hook-ups
and Holding out.
These two women have written an entire book full of questions from real girls like you and their expert answers to them. Some of the questions include “What’s the best treatment for cramps?”, “How can I avoid date rape?” and “How does birth control work?” It sounds a little like Sex Ed, right? This book is like Sex Ed in that it is full of important information that every girl should know, but it is unlike it because it’s actually interesting!
The authors answer the questions presented to them in a way that is informational, yet easy-to-read. Most of the questions even have two part answers, the “quickie answer” and the “full scoop”. The quickie answer is just that, a quick, one sentence answer to the question presented. This is great if you are just skimming through the book for some information and don’t care to read the whole answer. If you do want a more in-depth answer however, you can read the full scoop, which offers more than enough information to completely answer the question.
Hang-ups, Hook-ups and Holding out is divided into eight chapters, and each one has a specific topic that all of the following questions fall under. At the beginning of each chapter, there is a section called “She Did What?!” In these sections, Holmes and Hutchins have written a short fiction story to introduce the topic of the chapter. These sections of the book are based off of real life situations, but they are written in a way that seems like adult women trying to sound like young girls. At times, the vocabulary and language used in the dialogue seems unnatural.
Despite this one flaw, this Girlogy book is a must read for teenage and pre-teenage girls. It answers hundreds of questions that you may not be ready to talk about with your parents. If you do happen to have a question that hasn’t been answered in this book though, you can go the book’s website, www.girlology.com and there are even more questions and answers on there! There’s also a link that will allow you to ask the doctors your own question. It’s complicated being a girl sometimes, but this Girlology book can help uncomplicate things.
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction, Social Issues, Dating & Sex
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