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Boy Talk: A Survival Guide to Growing Up by Caroline Plaisted
Category: No Category | Series: Growing Up
Hair is sprouting up everywhere, your skin is having an acne attack and suddenly girls aren't so annoying...What's going on? Growing up can be a rollercoaster ride, but it can be a whole lot easier if you know what to expect. With advice from everything from shaving to your social life, you can take it ...Show more
Girl Talk: A Survival Guide to Growing Up by Caroline Plaisted
Category: No Category | Series: Growing Up
Your hair is greasy, spots are cropping up all over the place and your family is suddenly driving you crazy...What's going on? Growing up can be a rollercoaster ride, but it can be whole lot easier if you know what to expect. With advice on everything from bras to bad breath, you can relax - this guide ...Show more
Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia by Anita Heiss
Category: First Nations Voices | Series: Growing Up
Childhood stories of family, country and belonging What is it like to grow up Aboriginal in Australia? This anthology, compiled by award-winning author Anita Heiss, showcases many diverse voices, experiences and stories in order to answer that question. Accounts from well-known authors and high-profile ...Show more
Growing Up Asian in Australia by Alice Pung (ed)
Category: Memoir | Series: Growing Up
Asian-Australians have often been written about by outsiders, as outsiders. In this collection, compiled by award-winning author Alice Pung, they tell their own stories with verve, courage and a large dose of humour. These are not predictable tales of food, festivals and traditional dress. The food is h ...Show more
Growing Up Disabled in Australia by Carly Findlay
Category: Society & Culture | Series: Growing Up
'My body and its place in the world seemed quite normal to me.' 'I didn't grow up disabled, I grew up with a problem. A problem those around me wanted to fix.' 'We have all felt that uncanny sensation that someone is watching us.' 'The diagnosis helped but it didn't fix everything.' 'Don't fear the labe ...Show more
Growing Up Muslim in Australia by Amra Pajalic; Demet Divaroren
Category: No Category | Series: Growing Up
In this refreshing and fascinating collection, twelve Muslim-Australians - some well known, some not - reveal their candid, funny and touching stories of growing up with a dual identity.
Growing Up in Australia by BLACK INC.
Category: Society & Culture | Series: Growing Up
This special collection is the perfect introduction to Black Inc.'s definitive 'Growing Up' series. Featuring pieces from Growing Up Asian, Growing Up Aboriginal, Growing Up African, Growing Up Queer and Growing Up Disabled in Australia, it captures the diversity of our nation in moving and revelatory w ...Show more
Growing Up in Country Australia by Rick Morton
Category: Society & Culture | Series: Growing Up
Black Inc.'s bestselling Growing Up series goes to the country Growing Up in Country Australia is a fresh, modern look at country Australia. There are stories of joy, adventure, nostalgia, connection to nature and freedom, but also more grim tales - of drought, fires, mouse plagues and isolation. From ...Show more
Growing up Queer in Australia by Benjamin Law
Category: Society & Culture | Series: Growing Up
'No amount of YouTube videos and queer think pieces prepared me for this moment.’ ‘The mantle of “queer migrant” compelled me to keep going – to go further.’ ‘I never “came out” to my parents. I felt I owed them no explanation.’ ‘All I heard from the pulpit were grim hints.’ ‘I became acutely aware of ...Show more
So, Here's the Thing... - Notes on Growing up, Getting Older and Not Giving a Shit by Alyssa Mastromonaco
Category: No Category | Series: Notes on Growing Up, Getting Older...no Shit
From the New York Times bestselling author of Who Thought This Was a Good Idea? comes a fun, frank book of reflections, essays and interviews on topics ranging from politics and career to motherhood, sisterhood and making and sustaining relationships of all kinds in the age of social media. Alyssa Mastr ...Show more
The Blue Dress by libby hathorn
Category: Teen | Series: Growing up with Libby | Reading Level: From 8 To 99
Libby Hathorn has asked some of Australia s finest writers for their response to the painting by internationally acclaimed artist Brian Dunlop. First love, joy and disappointment, secrets, violence and the vagaries of fate are interwoven in these stories that remind us things are not always as they appe ...Show more
The Girls' Guide to Growing Up by Anita Naik
Category: Parenting | Series: Guide to Growing Up
A friendly and reassuring guide for girls as they approach puberty, explaining the changes that will happen to their bodies as they grow up and how these changes might make them feel. Covering everything from periods and breast development to body hair and personal hygiene, puberty and parenting expert ...Show more