A guide for all those parents that seek a way to comprehend the difficult transition into adolescence of their children. It explains that there are coexisting two personalities in the adolescents, with one part still being the child yet the other being already the adult, an attitude that might change unpredictably and unexpectedly. The authors emphasise that the adolescents can't be reduced to a list of positive or negative qualities. The book doesn't hold a recipe but it does give orientation on how to understand and handle their children.
Jonathan Bradley and Hélène Dubinsky work at the Department of Adolescence at the Tavistock Clinic of London, a centre specialised in child and adolescent health care.

In her writing the author tells about the physical changes the adolescents have to face and that are accompanied by so many worries. She spends time on the details like the time you devote to select a pair of new shoes, socks or a bra. The same way she incites the girls to recognize their physical changes and accept them in a natural manner. Above all the book presents various experiences during adolescence and mixes them with humour and education.
Mavis Jukes is an author specialized in adolescence and their life styles.

Under the premise that the children need to educate their parents as well, the author offers a guide to get to know the secrets of family relationships. He assures that in order to turn the rules in one's home in favour of the adolescents, the same ones have to be ready and courageous for the time to confront the parents. With a certain dosage of humour and in a juvenile language, Von Westphalen tackles the delicate matters like alcoholism and parental maltreatment.

From his view point as a specialist, the author responds the questions the girls have about the young men that surround them. Using a direct and clear language, he explains the physical and psychological aspects that cause the behaviour of the adolescents. Besides he refers to the different behavioural patterns and how the girls should act towards their male friends or partners. He especially refers to the particularities of the male and female brain.
Michael Gurian is an expert in male psychology from childhood up to adulthood and has already written a variety of books regarding this matter.

Dedicating to the ones that start puberty, the illustrated text presents a didactic guide for the readers. In his writing the adolescents find out that wet dreams, menstruation, the growth of the breasts and masturbation are natural things and proper for this age they have. It is a book that encourages to face the changes of puberty and accept them as natural transformations through which every single person has to go.
Peter Mayle was born in Great Britain in 1939. During his life he has written books dedicated to youth and novels for adults.

In her writing the author describes the sensations the adolescents experiment during puberty. Supported by two young people of a school of Los Angeles, California - Nick and Chava Castro - she faces questions that go from "What is adolescence?" To "What happens to the girls at this stage?" and "How to handle the new and impulsive sexual feelings?".
Karin Gravelle is an author of various books about the difficult situations the adolescents are confronted with.