Periods in Fiction

Around half the population will experience menstruation. These fiction books for tweens and teens talk about it.

Updated June 18, 2025
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Saskatchewan Information & Library Services Consortium Regina Public Library
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Are you there, God? It's me, Margaret
Blume, Judy.
Paper Book
Faced with the difficulties of growing up and choosing a religion, a 12-year-old girl talks over with her own private God.
Blood moon / Lucy Cuthew
Cuthew, Lucy
Paper Book
This powerful, timely novel in verse exposes provocative truths about periods, sex, shame, and going viral for all the wrong reasons. After school one day, Frankie, a lover of physics and astronomy, has her first sexual experience with quiet and gorgeous Benjamin--and gets...
Free Period
Terese, Ali.
Paper Book
This middle-grade Moxie centering period equity is Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret for the next generation! Longlisted for the National Book Award "Absolute fire." -- Book Riot Helen and Gracie are pranking their way through...
Go with the flow
Williams, Lily
Paper Book
High school students embark on a crash course of friendship, female empowerment, and women's health issues in Lily Williams and Karen Schneemann's graphic novel Go With the Flow. Good friends help you go with the flow. Best friends help you start a...
The New Girl, Vol. 1
Calin, Cassandra.
Paper Book
This funny, feel-good middle-grade graphic novel about change and acceptance will be a hit with fans of Guts by Raina Telgemeier, Pizza Face by Rex Ogle and Dave Valeza, and Parachute Kids by Betty C. Tang. Goodbye, old life... Lia and her family are...

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