The Diary of a Teenage Health Freak

The Diary of a Teenage Health Freak

Author: Aidan Macfarlane

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 9780199109050

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Convinced that he is a hypochondriac, fourteen-year-old Peter decides to keep a diary in which he records the facts about his various ailments.


The Diary of a Teenage Health Freak

The Diary of a Teenage Health Freak

Author: Aidan Macfarlane

Publisher:

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 9780192860835

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Convinced that he is a hypochondriac, fourteen-year-old Peter decides to keep a diary in which he records the facts about his various ailments.


Bullying

Bullying

Author: Aidan Macfarlane

Publisher:

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13: 9780199112302

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With over a million copies sold worldwide and translated into 22languages, the Health Freak books have been a global publishing phenomenon,bringing both fun and vital health education to teenagers the world over.Health Freak: Bullying has the popular question-and-answer format of the HealthFreak series (Sex, Drugs), based on genuine questions emailed by kids to theauthors' award-winning health advice website (teenagehealthfreak.org). Frank,down-to-earth answers are given by the authors, both of whom are doctorsspecializing in teenage health issues.Bullying is a perennial and highly damaging problem affecting many thousands ofchildren - boys and girls of all ages. It is a matter of desperate concern forthose affected and for their parents and teachers, and is among the issues mostfrequently raised by kids in their emails to the authors' website. Bullying iscurrently much in the media spotlight and the target in the UK of a majorgovernment-sponsored initiative. It is also prominent within the UK NationalCurriculum (in the guidelines for PSHE at KS2 and KS3).BLAIDAN MACFARLANE ran the Child and Adolescent Health services for theOxfordshire Health Authority. He is now an international freelance consultant inchild and adolescent health.BLANN McPHERSON is a general practitioner with extensive experience of youngpeople and their problems, and a lecturer in the Department of Primary HealthCare at the University of Oxford.Teenage Health Freak titles include: The Diary of a Teenage Health Freak; TheDiary of the Other Health Freak; RU a Teenage Health Freak?; Health Freak: Sex;Health Freak: Drugs. The authors' other books include Mum I Feel Funny (whichwon the Times Education Supplement Information Book Award), Me and My Mates, TheVirgin Now Boarding, and Fresher Pressure. Most recently they published a bookfor parents about the teenage years called Teenagers: the agony, the ecstasy,the answers.


Dear Nobody

Dear Nobody

Author: Gillian McCain

Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.

Published: 2014-04-01

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 1402287593

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"A rare, no-holds-barred documentation of an American teenager's life." —Publishers Weekly Told through the actual diary entries of a real teenage girl, Dear Nobody chronicles Mary Rose's struggles with drug addiction, bullying, and a deadly secret in this raw, authentic book. Her story will inspire you—and remind you that you're not alone. They call me a freak. I'm sick of it. It makes me want dangerous, bad things. Drugs—hard drugs—and people who are bad for me, but I don't care, because I'm so lonely and no matter what their intentions are at least they're talking to me... They say that high school is supposed to be the best time of your life. But what if that's just not true? More than anything, Mary Rose wants to fit in. To be heard. To be loved. And she'll do whatever it takes to make that happen. Even if it costs her her life. Compelling and unflinchingly honest, Dear Nobody is perfect for readers looking for: contemporary young adult nonfiction true stories about drug addiction books like Go Ask Alice and Lucy in the Sky stories that spark conversation about issues teens face


The Diary of the Other Health Freak

The Diary of the Other Health Freak

Author: Aidan Macfarlane

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780199109043

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Sixteen-year-old Susie Payne decides to copy her older brother, Peter, whose Diary of a teenage health freak was very popular. She writes in her diary of problems that concern her, along with the latest reports on her brother's relationships and health problems.


Freak the Mighty

Freak the Mighty

Author: Rodman Philbrick

Publisher: Usborne Publishing Ltd

Published: 2015-04-01

Total Pages: 140

ISBN-13: 1409591050

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Max is used to being called Stupid. And he is used to everyone being scared of him. On account of his size and looking like his dad. Kevin is used to being called Dwarf. And he is used to everyone laughing at him. On account of his size and being some cripple kid. But greatness comes in all sizes, and together Max and Kevin become Freak The Mighty and walk high above the world. An inspiring, heartbreaking, multi-award winning international bestseller.


R U a Teenage Health Freak?

R U a Teenage Health Freak?

Author: Aidan Macfarlane

Publisher:

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9780199109166

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*Why do other kids pick on me? *How can I zap these spots? *Why are my parents always fighting? *Why have my periods stopped?Find the answers to these and zillions of other questions on...Sex and growing up, weight and diet, relationships and family problems, smoking, drinking and drugs, stress and depression, and much, much more.BLreal questions drawn from over 8,500 emails sent to the award-winning teenagehealthfreak.org website, which has had over 6 million hits since its launch in 2000BLquestion-and-answer format - speaks directly to teenagersThe two existing Health Freak books - Diary of a Teenage Health Freak and Diary of the Other Health Freak - have sold over 1 million copies worldwide. They have also been translated into 22 foreign langauges, and were made into two six-part TV series for Channel 4.


The Teen Years Explained

The Teen Years Explained

Author: Clea McNeely

Publisher: Jayne Blanchard

Published: 2010-05

Total Pages: 125

ISBN-13: 0615302467

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This guide incorporates the latest scientific findings about physical, emotional, cognitive, identity formation, sexual and spiritual development in adolescent, with tips and strategies on how to use this information inreal-life situations involving teens.


Go Ask Alice

Go Ask Alice

Author: Anonymous

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 1999-07-13

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 0689832494

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A teen plunges into a downward spiral of addiction in this classic cautionary tale. January 24th After you’ve had it, there isn't even life without drugs… It started when she was served a soft drink laced with LSD in a dangerous party game. Within months, she was hooked, trapped in a downward spiral that took her from her comfortable home and loving family to the mean streets of an unforgiving city. It was a journey that would rob her of her innocence, her youth—and ultimately her life. Read her diary. Enter her world. You will never forget her. For thirty-five years, the acclaimed, bestselling first-person account of a teenage girl’s harrowing decent into the nightmarish world of drugs has left an indelible mark on generations of teen readers. As powerful—and as timely—today as ever, Go Ask Alice remains the definitive book on the horrors of addiction.


Anne Frank

Anne Frank

Author: Anne Frank

Publisher:

Published: 1972

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 9780671430290

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Traces the life of a young Jewish girl who kept a diary during the two years she and her family hid from the Germans in an Amsterdam attic.