You Know, Sex: Bodies, Gender, Puberty, and Other Things

By Cory Silverberg and Fiona Smyth

Book Overview

2023 ALA RAINBOW BOOK LIST
WINNER 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-winning What Makes a Baby and Sex Is a Funny Word

"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, The New York Times Book Review

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, and how 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, Sex is 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1644210800
• ISBN13: 9781644210802
• Release Date: April 2022
• Publisher: Triangle Square
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 2.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.6" x 9.9"
• Age Range: 10 to 14 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 9

Customer Reviews

Teaches relationship skills, helps w safety and opens up conversations

This book is a graphic story that can be read from any chapter in any order. It presents information and asks you to take a stance, think, and talk to others. There are places I found awkward (the framing of binary as a control tool, for example) or too definitive, which is uncharacteristic of this author. Even the sections I disagreed with opened better conversations with my kids and helped name family values that had gone unnamed. The six pages on intercourse, scattered across a 400-page doorstoper, landed so flatly that my kids didn’t blink; they were more curious about consent, privacy, and their own changing bodies and the conversations those subjects brought

Great

Interesting and age appropriate