Name: Between You and Me (Girls Edition) — 3 Books for Girls 9–13
Brand: Vyaktigat Vikas
SKU: between-you-and-me-girls
Price: 799 INR
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Between You and Me · Girls 9–13

Written for the daughter who doesn’t know yet — and for the mother who was never told either.

Most girls in India find out what a period is from their mother, and a great many mothers found out on the day it happened to them. This is a set of three books built to sit in that gap: plain, unembarrassed, and arriving before the day it is needed rather than after.

What this actually is

Three full-colour books, 96 pages plus a four-page tracker section, printed at ISO B5 — a proper book size, not a pamphlet. Roughly sixty per cent explanation and forty per cent blank space, because this is a book she writes in. There are checklists to tick, trackers to fill, questions to answer and a page to sign and date.

That is the whole design idea. A book that is read once gets read once. A book with her own handwriting in it gets kept — and gets picked up again on the day it is actually needed.

✓3 books · full colour throughout · ISO B5 (176 × 250 mm)
✓130gsm art paper interior, 300gsm matte-laminated cover
✓Roughly 60% explanation, 40% space to write
✓A red-flag page in every book — when to tell an adult, when to see a doctor
✓Two parent pages in each of the three books
✓Helpline printed in every book: 1098, and 112

The three books

Not three reading levels — three subjects at one age. She can open Book 2 the week she needs it without finishing Book 1 first.

Book 1

My Body Is Changing

Everything that starts happening before the period does

By the end she knows what is starting, why, and that her timing is her own.

What’s starting

Everybody changes — and everybody starts at a different time
Head to toe: what actually changes
Suddenly taller, suddenly clumsy
Breasts — including that one side often starts first
Body hair, and why removing it is a choice
Sweat, smell, skin and spots

Why it happens

Hormones, in plain words
A calm, correctly-named diagram
Why am I different from my friend?
What people say vs what’s true
Boys are changing too
Sleep, food, moving — no diet talk

Taking care of me

A daily routine, six steps
A week of tick-boxes
Clothes that feel right
Who can I ask? — naming safe adults
My people: three names, written in
Me, this year — signed and dated

Book 2

My First Period

What happens, and exactly what to do

She knows it is not an emergency, it is not dirty, and she has a plan.

What a period is

What it actually is, in five sentences
What it looks like the first time — often brown, often not red at all
How much, how long, how often
The blunt myths, answered
Custom and medicine — a full page, not a footnote

What to do

Pads and cloth, given equal weight
How to use a pad, step by step
Using cloth safely — washed, sun-dried, stored
Changing it, and never flushing it
What’s in my bag — a pouch she keeps ready
If it starts at school — the exact scenario, answered

Living with it

Cramps, and what genuinely helps
The six-month tracker (see below)
Sports, swimming, school — nothing is off-limits
Telling your mother — three sentences she can borrow
If nobody told you, and it already started

Book 3

My Feelings, My Body, My Rules

Feelings, and your rules

Her body is hers, her feelings are real, and she is allowed to ask.

My feelings

Why everything feels bigger — it is hormonal, not a character flaw
A seven-day feelings grid
Angry, crying, wanting to be alone — all allowed
When it’s too much: a four-step plan she can run
Comparing yourself, mirrors and screens
Things I like about me — half of them nothing to do with looks

My body is mine

Your body belongs to you
Safe touch and unsafe touch, calmly
The rule about secrets
Saying no — to an adult, to a cousin, to a friend
If something happens: tell someone, and keep telling
If you need help right now — 1098 and 112

My rules

Privacy, and what she is owed
Friends who are being cruel
Asking for help is strong
The person I’m becoming — a drawing box
My rules — written, signed and dated

The part that makes it her

A six-month period tracker she fills in herself

Four pages at the back of Book 2. Six month grids, a table that teaches her to count her own gap, and one line she writes in her own handwriting: my gap is usually about ___ days. There is a small cut-out card for her school bag.

●Undated on purpose — no printed months, no year. She writes the month herself, so the book never expires.
●Day 1 marked with a filled circle, other days with a dot, small marks for cramps and mood.
●A count-the-gap table — the one real skill the tracker exists to teach.
●A pocket card she can keep in her bag: last period started, my usual gap, what’s in my pouch.

It does not promise to predict anything. Teenage cycles commonly run anywhere from 21 to 45 days and stay irregular for a year or two — that is normal. A tracker that implies she can predict her period, and then cannot, teaches her that she is broken. This one says so on the page.

For you, not just for her

Two pages in every book are written to the parent

Not an afterword. A designed spread near the back of each book, set in different type, written to a mother, an aunt, an elder sister or a father — including the one who was never properly told any of this either, and feels slightly embarrassed about that.

How to start

Actual opening sentences, so you do not have to invent them on the spot.

What not to say

The handful of well-meant phrases that close the conversation down.

Being awkward is fine

Being present matters more than being smooth. The book says so, to you.

Nothing in the child’s pages assumes you are in the room. A girl reading this alone at eleven at night can act on every single instruction in it. The parent pages add to that; they are never the thing holding it up.

What is deliberately not in these books

Worth knowing before you buy, because it is the part most parents ask about.

×How babies are made. One line on the anatomy page pointing to you or a doctor — that conversation is yours to have, at your timing.
×No dating and no sex. Book 3 has a single page on liking someone, at feelings level only.
×No brand names. Not one pad, cup or product is named anywhere in the set.
×No diet talk, no weight talk, and no food sorted into good and bad.
×No family is ever mocked. Where custom and medicine disagree, the book corrects the belief and never the person holding it.
×Nothing on the cover names the subject.

Look at the covers again

Not one of the three names the subject. No cartoon diagram, no word a classmate could read across a desk — just the series name, a quiet descriptor and an illustration. She can leave any of these three on her desk, in her school bag, or on a shared shelf without it announcing anything about her.

The spine and the back carry the plain description, so you can find the right one on a shelf. The front is built for her.

Who this is for

Parents of a 9–11 year old
The core case. Average age of first period in India is now around twelve and falling — a book pitched at twelve is late for half its readers.
The mother who was never told
You are not expected to already know this. Two pages in every book are written for you.
Fathers raising a daughter
Especially single fathers. The parent pages assume you may be starting from zero, and do not make you feel foolish for it.
The girl it already started for
Book 2 has a page written specifically for the girl reading it afterwards. She has not missed anything.

There is a set for the other one too

There is a boys’ set — the same three-book structure, written for boys 10–14, with a growth chart where this one has a cycle tracker. Same design, same size, same care, the same two parent pages — deliberately the same colours on Book 3 of both. If you have a son and a daughter, the shelf itself makes the point that they are being treated the same.

Use the edition switcher at the top of this page to see the boys’ set.

A book she reads once helps once. A book she writes in belongs to her.

Between You and Me · Girls 9–13 · Three books, full colour, delivered across India.

Health information for general education only. It does not replace advice from a doctor. Each book carries a red-flag page telling her exactly when to speak to an adult or a doctor, and India’s child helpline — 1098, or 112, the emergency number.

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