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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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...
Calling the Moon : 16 Period Stories from BIPOC Authors
Paper Book
An essential, highly relatable collection of short fiction and poems around the topic of menstruation, written exclusively by authors who are Black, Indigenous, and/or people of color For Angela, it came on the basketball court--while playing on the boys' team. For Penny, it came...
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...
Lo Simpson starts a revolution
Florence, Melanie
Paper Book
In this funny yet moving coming-of-age novel, a girl finds comfort, and eventually her voice, by writing letters to The Doctor from her favorite TV show, Doctor Who. Lo and Jazz have been best friends ever since Jazz defended her when Bobby Zucker called her a horse face in second grade....
Something Maybe Magnificent
Toalson, R. L.
Paper Book
There's a new man in her mom's life, and Victoria is determined to get rid of him--no matter what. Both a standalone novel and a follow up to The First Magnificent Summer, this pitch-perfect middle grade story "thoughtfully and sincerely explores womanhood, family, anxiety, and identity" (...

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