You Know, Sex: Bodies, Gender, Puberty, and Other Things [HARDCOVER]|

2023 ALA RAINBOW BOOK LIST andWINNER 2023 DOUG WRIGHT AWARD

A completely new approach to learning about puberty, sex, and gender for kids 10+.

Here is the much-anticipated third book in the trilogy that started with the award-winningWhat Makes a BabyandSex Is a Funny Word

In a bright graphic format featuring four dynamic middle schoolers,You Know, Sex grounds sex education in social justice, covering not only the big three of puberty – hormones, reproduction, and development – but also power, pleasure, andhow to be a decent human being.

Centering young people’s experiences of pressures and joy, risk and reward, and confusion and discovery, there are chapters on body autonomy, disclosure, stigma, harassment, pornography, trauma, masturbation, consent, boundaries and safety in our media-saturated world, puberty and reproduction that includes trans, non-binary, and intersex bodies and experience, and more.

Racially and ethnically diverse, inclusive of cross-disability experience, this is a book for every kind of young person and every kind of family.

You Know, Sexis the first thoroughly modern sex ed book for every body navigating puberty and adolesence, essential for kids, everyone who knows a kid, and anyone who has ever been a kid.

“Silverberg’s writing is fearless . . . Here is that rare voice that can talk about the hardest things kids go through in ways that are thoughtful, lighthearted and always respectful of their intelligence.”
—Rachel Brian,TheNew York Times Book Review

Pages: 432

Age Range: 10-14 years

ISBN: 9781644210802