Year 8 – Changes and Challenges

Recommended for children aged 11-13

In Changes and Challenges, Charlie and Alice enjoy their first move from dependence to independence when they get after-school jobs. They find that increased freedom brings responsibility and that their classmates react to growing up in a variety of ways.

This is an age when young people are growing fast, taking on new responsibilities and finding themselves having to defend their own values and need for privacy. They also want to be accepted among their peers. Standing up for good human values can be uncomfortable and it tests Charlie and Alice’s integrity as well as their friendships.

Life at home brings its own joys and frictions as the cousins and their families adjust to the changes of puberty and gauge the duties which accompany new freedoms. The children learn to understand their mood and bodily changes, and to savour the adventure of making new friends and being treated at home as young adults.

This book includes useful material on adolescent subjects suited to the end of primary school or first years of secondary.

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