Puberty
Puberty starts around 11 years for girls and 12 years for boys, give or take a year or so. Physical changes become obvious at about 11 to 14 years for most girls, and about 13 to 16 years for most boys. Along with these physical changes come ... [... more]
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Sean Kenin
Ernie Banks, named for the legendary Chicago Cubs shortstop, is a troubled, thirteen-year-old juvenile delinquent. Abandoned on the doorstep of the Lakeside Home for Boys when he was three years old, his only proof that he once belonged to ... [... more]
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William Butler
Welcome to High Pines Summer Camp for Boys. There is hiking, swimming, canoeing--and a revolution led by General Frank. He promises change for the better, but little by little, he begins to change, and the revolution ... [... more]
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David Morrell
They were orphans, Chris and Saul--raised in a Philadelphia school for boys, bonded by friendship, and devoted to a mysterious man called Eliot. He visited them and brought them candy. He treated them like sons. He ... [... more]
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Alfred Molina
Perhaps the greatest of all adventure stories for boys and girls, Treasure Island began, a brave boy who finds himself among pirates, and of the sinister pirate-cook Long John Silver holds children as entranced today as it did a century ago. It ... [... more]
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Sport And Children
Only six out of 10 children aged between five and 14 years participate in sport outside of school, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics. The rate of obesity among children and teenagers (21 per cent for boys, 23 per cent for girls) ... [... more]
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