adulthood

Explains the different kinds of work which adults do around the home and suggests ways to pretend to accomplish grown-up tasks such as shopping, cooking, gardening, and washing the car.

Shows through send-ups of adult failings and foibles, just how ridiculous the older generation sometimes seems to children.

Contrasts the behavior and activities of children and grownups, in such areas as eating, selection of television programs, and sleeping.

Seven-year-old Summer Jackson wants to be a grown-up, starting right now.

Drawing on research and case studies from her clinical psychology practice, Dr. Meg Jay advises readers in their early adulthood on matters of work, community, cohabitation, starting a family, etc., and shows how the decisions people make during their twenties radicallly affect the rest of their lives.

High school senior Marcus Rosenbloom decides to cross the wall that divides childhood from adulthood, but finds it's not the simple matter he thought it would be.

The author provides for teenagers the information and guidance on a variety of topics that he wishes he had had when he was a sixteen-year-old; explains how the world works, why parents and other adults act the way they do, and discusses attitudes and values, self-esteem, peers, laws, anger, mistakes, love, marriage, jobs and careers, and money.

Describes in verse and illustrations the terrifying but eagerly anticipated freedoms that go along with graduating and entering the real world.