Aidan MacFarlane and Ann McPherson - The Diary of a Teenage Health Freak - (Paperback)

Book still in a very good condition.    >>>  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.  

>>>   Picking spots, smoking pot, period pains, and penis angst: The Diary of a Teenage Health Freak was essential reading for a generation of adolescents when it was first published in 1987. Paying clever homage to that other seminal diarist of the 1980s, Adrian Mole, this is a titillating peek at a year in the life of Peter Payne, a typical 14 year old boy. But this diary was written by a consultant paediatrician and a general practitioner, their work the result of asking real teenagers about their worries.   -    Among the humour is accurate but cringe-free health advice on topics such as puberty, sex, and recreational drugs, designed to trash the misinformation picked up in the playground or behind the bike shed. Perhaps for the first time, frank discourse about growing up had been written lightheartedly to appeal to children as young as 12. And appeal it did: Health Freak  topped the W H Smith bestsellers list for five weeks, was translated into 27 languages, and, with the same authors Im a Health Freak Too, sold more than a million copies in the United Kingdom.