By: Anna Barnes
Now I don’t normally review non-fiction, mostly because I don’t read a lot of it but I started going through this and thought it was a great idea. Not only a great idea but very well executed. This is a book that doesn’t stick to one theme in regards to growing up, it doesn’t push any one thing at you. Instead what Anna Barnes has presented us with is a self-discovery guide. It contains chapters dealing with everything from creating your own style, to body image, environmental issues to changing the world.
This book is choc full of information about all sorts of things (parents can even learn things as they look through it -I did).
It is an open, honest look at what it is to grow up and try to figure out who you are. At times it is serious other times it is funny. Best of all it offers a variety of suggestions letting the reader know that no one way is the right way to be. We are all different and this is a book that celebrates that. I would totally recommend giving this to a pre-teen or a young teen, it may even provide an icebreaker for broaching certain topics.
Definitely worth a look.
Publisher: Puffin
Published: 28 March 2012
Format: Paperback 240 pages
Categories: Social Issues, Growing Up, Adolescence
ISBN 13: 9780143305767
Purchase: here or use the Booktopia link on side of the page
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