Non-fiction

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Like reading real stories about real people, or perhaps you're after a practical guide? 

Here are some great books to try. 

 

Teenager survival guides

What’s happening to me? Susan Meredith

Teenage kitchen rampage, Peter Oxley

The great brain robbery: what everyone should know about teenagers and drugs, Tom Scott and Trevor Grice

Open your mind: learn to deal with the big stuff in life, Gemma Cairney

Surviving Year 12: a sanity kit for students and their parents, Michael Carr-Greg

The puberty book: a guide for children and teenagers, Wendy Darvill and Kelsey Powell

We can’t be friends, Cyndy Etler

The girl guide, Marawa Ibrahim

Notes on being teenage, Rosalind Jana

Being a girl, Hayley Long

Lead the way: how to change the world from a teen activist and school striker, Jean Hinchcliffe

Memoir / biography

Lion by Saroo Brierley

I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Christina Lamb and Malala Yousafzai

Our House is on Fire: Scenes of a Family and a Planet in Crisis by Malena Ernman, Greta ThunbergBeata ErnmanSvante Thunberg

The boy with two lives by Abbas Kazerooni 

Tell me why: for young adults by Archie Roach

Tech, apps and coding

Creating an app by Chris Martin

Creative coding in Python: volume 30+ programming projects in art, games, and more by Sheena Vaidyanathan 

You can code: make your own games, apps and more in Scratch and Python! by Kevin Pettman 

High tech LEGO projects: 16 rule-breaking inventions by Grady Koch