The Diary of a Teenage Health Freak

Aidan Macfarlane, Ann McPherson

Oxford University Press, 2002 - Adolescence - 163 pages

A fully revised and updated edition for the 21st century, this is the book that teenagers can rely on to give them the facts of life - and make them laugh. When Pete Payne's diary was originally revealed to an unsuspecting world the result was astonishing; teenagers piled out from behind the bike shed to grab it from their friends; relieved teachers and startled parents were to be seen surreptitiously checking facts in well-thumbed copies. For teenagers who want to know but are too embarrassed to ask, for parents who know some of it but are too embarrassed to answer, and for teachers who know most of it but don't have the time to explain.

Contents

• My Own Changes Start but They Take a Loooong Time: 42
• Learning to Live with my Zits: 50
• Susie Gets Hayfever: 57
• My First Fag Nearly Kills: 65
• Pains Sprains and Wheezes: 72
• Sick Sick Sick or the Summer Holidays: 81
• Fears about the Future: 90
• Too Fat Too Thin Too Little Too Large: 104
• WartHogs and Odious Odours from Orifices: 118
• Tooth Piercing Body Piercing: 126
• Days off School Thinking Im Dying: 132
• Four Eyes with Pebbles: 142
• Drunken Desires: 148

About the author

Aidan Macfarlane is the Director of the National Adolescent and Student Health Unit, and Ann McPherson is a General Practitioner with extensive experience of young people and their problems. They both live in Oxford.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Diary of a Teenage Health Freak
• Authors: Aidan Macfarlane, Ann McPherson
• Illustrated by: John Astrop
• Edition: illustrated, revised
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2002
• ISBN: 0199109052, 9780199109050
• Length: 163 pages