Acne
Acne that begins at puberty is the result of increased sensitivity to the hormone testosterone, which is present in both boys and girls. Testosterone causes excessive sebum to be secreted from the skin's sebaceous ... [... more]
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Mira Rothenberg
Histories of Extraordinary Boys and Girls [... more]
Random House |
Victoria Jamieson
Ladies and gentlemen! Boys and girls! Welcome to the biggest, bravest,... [... more]
Harper Collins |
Marion Blumenthal Lazan
In Her Own Words... "At the age of thirteen, upon being placed in fourth grade with boys and girls four years younger than me, I was introduced to the English language for the first time. The German, Dutch, and ... [... more]
Harper Collins |
Jill Krementz
In this immensely moving book, nineteen boys and girls, from seven to sixteen years old and from highly diverse backgrounds, share with us their deepest feelings about their parents' divorce. By listening to them, all children of divorced parents ... [... more]
Random House |
Leonard Sax, M.D., Ph.D.
Are boys and girls really that different? Twenty years ago, doctors and researchers didn't think so. Back then, most experts believed that differences in how girls and boys behave are mainly due to differences in how ... [... more]
Random House |
Martin Provensen
Lions! Tigers! And a big, brown fuzzy bear! The Golden Circus is coming to town. Boys and girls will love the rollicking tale of Mr. Roly-Poly, a man who decides to start his own circus full of colorful clowns, wild ... [... more]
Random House |
Alice Provensen
Lions! Tigers! And a big, brown fuzzy bear! The Golden Circus is coming to town. Boys and girls will love the rollicking tale of Mr. Roly-Poly, a man who decides to start his own circus full of colorful clowns, wild ... [... more]
Random House |
Alfred Molina
Perhaps the greatest of all adventure stories for boys and girls, Treasure Island began, a brave boy who finds himself among pirates, and of the sinister pirate-cook Long John Silver holds children as entranced today as it did a century ago. It ... [... more]
Random House |
Humphrey Bower
Growing up at Madam Opera's Estimable Marine Society for Foundling Boys and Girls, Rossamund Bookchild-a boy with an unfortunate name-has led a life sheltered from the dangers of the world. But this all changes the day the man with the strange ... [... more]
Random House |
D.M. Cornish
Growing up at Madam Opera's Estimable Marine Society for Foundling Boys and Girls, Rossamund Bookchild-a boy with an unfortunate name-has led a life sheltered from the dangers of the world. But this all changes the day the man with the strange ... [... more]
Random House |
Tay-Sachs Disease
TSD affects boys and girls equally. The disease is very rare in the general population, with 1 person in every 35,000 carrying the defective gene and 1 in 360,000 infants being born with the disease worldwide. ... [... more]
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