The girls feel comfortable talking about their periods and bodies, and about their frustrations with others and each other. The support the girls show their diverse friend group is powerful, and a great example of female friendship at an especially vulnerable age. Any young girl who has had her period at school can relate to the dread of unstocked feminine product machines in bathrooms, the terror of blood showing on pants, and the wish that periods would just go away forever. Readers who find the topic a little embarrassing will see the word "period" used so often that it becomes casual conversation within the book. Parents need to know that Go with the Flow, a graphic novel by Lily Williams and Karen Schneemann, takes on the often taboo subjects of menstruation and "period activism" with heart, humor, and a maturity just right for young readers.
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