The A-Z of Growing UP, Puberty and Sex is the perfect ready-reference guide to help you get through adolescence. Get to grips with all of the important, and sometimes embarrassing, facts of life. Packed with lots of practical support on how to deal with the physical and emotional changes that growing up brings. This book explains words and terms, both medical and slang, to help you find your way through puberty from A-Z.

From A to Z, here are some of the topics discussed in this great guide to being or becoming a teenager: Adoption, Body image, Coming out, Contraception, Dumping and getting dumped, Eating disorders, Fancying: Does he/she fancy you?, Gay/Lesbian, HIV/AIDS, Internet safety, Jealousy, Kissing, Love, Masturbation, Orgasm, Peer pressure, Periods, Relationships, Sex, Transgender/Transsexual, Underwear, Virginity, Wet dreams, You, Zits...

This book has been graded for interest at 12-18 years.

There are 96 pages in this book. This book was published 2018 by Hachette Children's Group .

Marel Harper is a Development Officer for Curriculum for Excellence. Gail Whitnall is a Principal Teacher of Health, Food and Technology and has been seconded as a QIO for Health and Wellbeing. Stephen De Silva and Lesley de Meza are leading practitioners and trainers of PSHE at a UK and international level.

This book has the following chapters:

• 1: Introduction
• 2: A: Abortion; Abstain; Abuse; Acne; Adoption; Age of consent
• 3: B: Bisexual; BO; Body image; Braces (retainers); Bras; Breasts; Bullying
• 4: C: Celibacy; Chatting up; Circumsicion; Clitoris; Cold sores; Condoms; Confidence; Confidential; Contraception; Crush; Cystitis
• 5: Continues through to Z
• 6: Further information and contacts