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  • Tough Choices: Young Women Talk about Pregnancy

    Alison Hadley

    Paperback (Women's Press, Ltd. (UK), Jan. 1, 2001)
    The 24 young women featured in this collection of first-hand accounts describe their own and others' responses on discovering they were pregnant, the options that were open to them, and how pregnancy and young motherhood has affected their lives.
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  • The Soul Brothers and Sister Lou

    Kristin Hunter Lattany, Kristin Hunter

    Paperback (Womens Pr Ltd, May 1, 1997)
    A fourteen-year-old girl tries to reconcile her dreams and hopes for the future with the harsh and often unpleasant realities of life in the African American section of town.

  • Diving In

    Kate Cann

    Paperback (Women's Press, July 1, 1997)
    Coll thinks the boy she sees swimming every Thursday night is completely gorgeous—long and lean, powerful and strong. He becomes the fantasy that takes her out of her ordinary day-to-day existence. And then he asks her out, and the dream becomes reality. Art is strong and powerful, and he's also quite pushy. Just what is Coll getting into?
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  • Dead Proud: From Second Wave Young Women Playwrights

    Lconsidine & Slovo

    Paperback (Womens Pr Ltd, )
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  • Cairo Hughes

    Millie Murray

    Paperback (Womens Pr Ltd, April 1, 1996)
    Although Cairo loves her white adoptive family, and knows that they love her, when they move to London she is glad to have a chance to make Black friends for the first time and to explore what it means to be Black in England
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  • What's Your Problem?

    Sherry Ashworth

    Paperback (Women's Press, Ltd. (UK), Jan. 1, 2001)
    This powerful novel, aimed at teenagers, gets right inside the experience of being bullied and treats a difficult subject with wisdom, wit, and understanding.
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  • Getting Somewhere

    Pausaker

    Paperback (Women's Press, Ltd. (UK), Jan. 1, 2001)
    Disabled in childhood, Dinah has always felt second-best to her twin sister, Stacey. Since she is in her final year at school, perhaps it's time for Dinah to start believing in herself and forge an identity independent of her sister.

  • Get a Life

    Jenny Pausacker

    Paperback (Women's Press, Ltd. (UK), Jan. 1, 2001)
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  • Between You and Me

    Charlotte Cole

    Paperback (Women's Press, Ltd. (UK), Sept. 1, 1999)
    This is a collection of extracts from the diaries and letters of young women who went on to become successful authors, including Sylvia Plath, Charlotte Bronte, Eileen Fairweather, and Joan Aiken.

  • The Beat Goes on

    Adele Minchin

    Paperback (Womens Press, Ltd., Jan. 1, 2001)
    People don't want to talk about it. they're scared they might catch it....nobody realizes that there are people like emma out there who have just had a bit of bad luck from one careless mistake.From "The Beat Goes On"At fifteen shy Leyla looks up to her sixteen-year-old cousin, Emma. Beautiful, confident, and popular with boys, Emma seems to have it all. But when Emma learns that she's HIV positive after having unprotected sex just once, Leyla must be the strong one. Supporting her cousin through all the changes, even teaching music to kids in Emma's support group, Leyla promises to keep it "all" a secret. But when Leyla's gorgeous new boyfriend thinks condoms are optional, and Emma's health begins to decline, Leyla realizes people will never be safe unless they are aware. Will she find the courage to speak out and make people understand?
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  • Sink or Swim

    Kate Cann

    (The Women's Press, Sept. 24, 1998)
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  • In the Deep End

    Kate Cann

    Paperback (Gardners Books, Aug. 31, 1997)
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