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Usborne Facts of Life, Growing Up (All about Adolescence, body changes and sex)

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The first part of this trilogy, “Growing up in the Gorbals” is set in the 1920s and 30s and is an extraordinary piece. The author’s personal recollections and his gift for storytelling paint a vivid picture of time and place. The chapter entitled “Priestess of the Night”, manages to be both touching and horrifying at the same time. The opening chapter, and a later one entitled “The Frighteners”, left me with mixed feelings of sadness and anger. The reader is left in no doubt that the old Gorbals more than deserved its reputation for poverty and violence.

Set at a boys boarding school in New England during the early years of World War II, A Separate Peaceis a harrowing and luminous parable of the dark side of adolescence. Gene is a lonely, introverted intellectual. Phineas is a handsome, taunting, daredevil athlete. What happens between the two friends one summer, like the war itself, banishes the innocence of these boys and their world.” The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros Culture Trip launched in 2011 with a simple yet passionate mission: to inspire people to go beyond their boundaries and experience what makes a place, its people and its culture special and meaningful — and this is still in our DNA today. We are proud that, for more than a decade, millions like you have trusted our award-winning recommendations by people who deeply understand what makes certain places and communities so special.

In All Souls,MacDonald takes us deep into the secret heart of Southie. With radiant insight, he opens up a contradictory world, where residents are besieged by gangs and crime but refuse to admit any problems, remaining fiercely loyal to their community. MacDonald also introduces us to the unforgettable people who inhabit this proud neighborhood.” Heart Berries: A Memoir byTerese Marie Mailhot The story of young, sensitive, and idealistic Francie Nolan and her bittersweet formative years in the slums of Williamsburg at the turn of the century.” A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle Nanette O’Hare has played the quintessential privileged star athlete and straight-A student for as long as she can remember. But when a beloved teacher gives her his worn copy of The Bubblegum Reaper—a mysterious, out-of-print cult classic—the rebel within Nanette awakens.” Juliet Takes A Breath by Gabby Rivera It’s as though he’s discovered his voice. I think Ben, the narrator in your book, has a similar journey: maybe it’s by putting his own frame of reference on the story—by using his own animal metaphors at the start of each chapter—that Ben also discovers himself. Why did you give Ben these metaphors, and why did you use them so emphatically?

Let’s move on to your final book, Refresh, Refresh by Benjamin Percy. Tell us about this collection of short stories. In the early 20th century a high proportion of Gorbals people were first or second-generation migrants or immigrants, mainly from the Scottish Highlands, Ireland and Italy. Between the wars it was also home to Scotland’s largest Jewish population, mostly Yiddish speaking immigrants from Eastern Europe. It was to this community that Ralph Glasser belonged. Culture Trips are deeply immersive 5 to 16 days itineraries, that combine authentic local experiences, exciting activities and 4-5* accommodation to look forward to at the end of each day. Our Rail Trips are our most planet-friendly itineraries that invite you to take the scenic route, relax whilst getting under the skin of a destination. Our Private Trips are fully tailored itineraries, curated by our Travel Experts specifically for you, your friends or your family. Accuracy: This is a nonfiction memoir that is as much a narrative as it is a historical slice of American life. The author is a well-known journalist, and he describes his plights while growing up with sincere details, not for sympathy but for posterity. It not only somehow idealizes a turbulent time period, but it also seeks to educate future generations. I saw Nigeria as a collection of distinct tribes, who were living on their own. They had their own ways of doing things. The Igbo people, my tribe, for example, are about 40 million people—they are a nation in themselves—that’s like the size of all the Scandinavian nations put together, but it’s just a region in Nigeria. These guys had their own system of government, they had their own religion. It was different from the West, but they were doing well. Then the British came in and said, “You cannot be like this, this is the way to live, this is how your system of living is barbaric, this is how it should be.” It’s just like in my book, where a madman comes from the outside and dictates another way of living and brotherly love becomes antagonism and hate. That’s where I wanted to draw the parallel with what happened to Nigeria.

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In 1983, Baker won a Pulitzer Prize for his novel and made the YALSA list for Outstanding Books for the College-Bound- Biography. The memoir, Growing Up written by an outstanding author named Russel Baker, takes the readers to a nostalgic journey of his life as a curious young boy living in the rural Virginia to a determined writer. The memoir starts from a scene of his eighty years old mother (lying down in the hospital bed); despite being an energetic women in the early days and being a strong advocate of feminism, she has grown old and become senile. By looking at his senile mother, Russel recognizes human infirmity and aging over time, ending up thinking about his past childhood and his overall happy memories with his mother. Gazing upon his mother, Russel thinks about his parents and children of his own, wondering about his mother’s life and the harsh but blissful childhood filled with passion, hope, and joy. John Updike. Again when I was 18, I read it without realising it was part of a sequence of books, Rabbit Is Rich. It converted me to the idea that, as Updike puts it, the job of art is to give the mundane its beautiful due – that if you are a good enough writer, your prose can make everything, even the most microscopic and ordinary things in life, rich and strange.

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