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First published 2009

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ISBN: 978-0-14-193922-3

To my readers…

This one’s for you!

1. Friends Forever?

Making Friends / Keeping Friends / Falling Out

2. Growing Up

Body Matters / Girl Talk / Skin Deep / Mixed-Up Feelings

3. Boys, Boys, Boys

First Crush / Taking Your Time / Love Hurts / Breaking Up

4. School Daze

School’s Cool! / Teacher’s Pet? / Teacher Trouble / Work It Out / School Blues

5. Beat Bullying

Don’t Pick On Me / Sticks and Stones / Speaking Out / An End to Bullying

6. Confidence Tricks

Accept Yourself / Making Friends With You / Look for the Good Stuff! / Get Happy! / Do it Anyway! / Get Lucky!

7. Being Yourself

Who Am I? / Style Matters / Let It Out / Peer Pressure / Role Models / Being Different / No Such Thing as Perfect

8. Dream On

Big Ideas / Fame at Last / Making It Happen

9. Family Matters

Super Strict? / Brothers and Sisters / Problem Parents… / … and Parent Problems! / Patchwork Families

10. Sad Stuff

Bereavement / When Someone is Ill / Scary Stuff / Broken Families

11. Things That Don’t Help

Don’t Worry! / Little White Lies / Self-destruct / Rebel Rebel / Looking for Love? / Hurting Inside / Food Wars / Running Away

12. … and Things That Do!

Negotiate! / Talk It Over / Expert Help / Feeling Understood / Express Yourself! / Get Moving! / Believe It or Not… / Back to Nature / Good Stuff! / The Fab Five

1. Friends Forever?

Friendship is one of the most important things in our lives. It’s the glue that sticks us together through good times and bad. A real friend will be there for you through the best and the worst of times, loyal, caring, thoughtful, fun. Good friends are a little like family, and a best friend can often be the person who knows and understands you best in the world.

So, are friends forever?

Well, sometimes. At this stage in your life, you’re growing up, changing, working out who you really are… and sometimes, that means outgrowing old friends. It can take luck, hard work and effort on both sides to keep a friendship strong. And sometimes, no matter what you do, things fall apart…