This book was first published in 2005 and, I am sure, must have helped a great many young people and their parents and other carers since it first came out.

The strongest part of this piece is the simplification of developmental neuroscience and non-judgmental approach to adolescence. A comprehensive and fully updated guide to the biological mysteries that lie behind teenage behaviour. It’s odd to think that this wasn’t mentioned in the first edition, considering what an overwhelming part of life screens and social media now are. All of our books are 100% brand new, unread and purchased directly from the publishers in bulk allowing us to pass the huge savings on to you!of any different behaviours could be put down to nurture (society) more than nature (biology) but that there are some differences that we observe that are more likely to be down to biology – and that those differences are not, in my view, very interesting or meaningful. Teenagers are interested in their own brains but even more so are the people who care about, live and work with them. Each section includes a case study, a description of what’s going on in the teenage brain, some theories of why the teenage brain might work the way it does, some useful facts and hints to help teenagers and parents survive this stage, and a quiz or activity to do. I would definitely recommend this to everyone with children coming up to the teen years as I think its a great help to understand whats going on. As well as my non-fiction, I'm an award-winning novelist, with titles such as Mondays are Red and Fleshmarket.

There's plenty of humour and a good few well-deserved digs at the crass stupidty of parents and other well-meaning but misguided adults, which teenagers will appreciate. The information was presented in a really nice easy to read way and I think the stories that are presented also help to make it a more interesting read and help to put it into real life perspective rather than just facts on a page. This is not intended to be a full statement of all your rights under the Distance Selling Regulations. The book makes no reference to this and just asserts that autism is more likely in boys - a more nuanced explainer would have really helped.For further information about your statutory rights, contact your local authority Trading Standards department or consumer advice centre (for example the Citizen's Advice Bureau if you are in the UK). Join our community to get personalised book suggestions, extracts straight to your inbox, 10% off RRPs, and to change children’s lives. It's aimed at teenagers wanting to find out more about the way their brain works but is of course of interest to anyone who works with teenagers.

Contrary to popular (parental) opinion, teenagers are not the lazy, unpleasant louts they occasionally appear to be.

Next week is Children’s Mental Health Week so I’ll be focusing on that, answering a question from a blog-reader, Alex, who asked for strategies to help young people feeling anxious/panicky or low but without knowing quite why; and I’ll also tackle panic attacks. The brain we are born with does not depend on the generation it is born into; but the brain we develop does. Trading Address (Warehouse) Unit E, Vulcan Business Complex, Vulcan Road, Leicester, Leicestershire, LE5 3EB.

Reading about what goes on in an adolescent's brain can make all the difference to a teacher or parent who deals with the fallout of it each day. I learned that one of the things that happens to the brain in our early teenage years is a flurry of growth of the dendrites (connections between neurons), followed a few years later by a major pruning session where many of the relatively unused connections are culled and the remaining ones are strengthened and coated with a fatty myelin layer ready for adult life. I think this is a really valuable book, since reading it I’ve recommended it to a number of friends who work with teenagers. But the topic of gender or sex (which are not the same things) has in recent years become one where views are often polarised and we have to be clearer what we mean.

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