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Big Mouth - Season 1
Big Mouth - Season 1
2017 | Animation, Comedy
Hormone monster (0 more)
Great for those with dirty humor
I absolutely love this show because it makes fun of the weird stuff that goes through the minds of kids going through puberty.
It makes fun of young issues like sleepovers, first period in public, handling relationships, head pushing, and so much more. This is a really fun show if you're a fan of Blue Mountain State
  
The Battle of Algiers (1966)
The Battle of Algiers (1966)
1966 | Classics, Drama, War
7.4 (8 Ratings)
Movie Favorite

"I suppose there is a theme to my puberty list that could be summed up as “Live Free or Die Trying.” There is no battle for liberation, no desperate struggle to be seen on your own terms, that does not owe a debt to this film. Such sentiment is delivered romantically, tragically, and with unbearable beauty in this grande bataille, the likes of which you can still feel all over France, all over the world"

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David McK (3425 KP) rated Inside Out 2 (2024) in Movies

Oct 13, 2024 (Updated Oct 13, 2024)  
Inside Out 2 (2024)
Inside Out 2 (2024)
2024 |
7
7.0 (1 Ratings)
Movie Rating
2024 sequel to the 2015 original, in which Riley has now grown up and is off to Hockey Camp just as she also hits puberty - cue new emotions Anxiety, Ennui, Embarrassment and Envy all appearing in her 'Numskul' style control room, alongside the existing Joy, Sadness, Disgust and Fear.

Anxiety takes over.

Like the original, this does a good job of showing how we need *all* emotions, not just one or two, in order to operate ...
  
Au Hasard Balthazar (1966)
Au Hasard Balthazar (1966)
1966 | Drama
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"In film school, I took a critical-studies course on Bresson. He's a filmmaker I'm certain I would never have experienced if I hadn't been forced to. And I really fell in love. This is my favorite of his films. There's a distance in his filmmaking, an artifice in his staging, that makes it feel mythic. This story felt so familiar to me, like it echoed my own teenage experience of being a girl, the terror of sex, puberty, love, industrialization, cultural apathy."

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The Perks of Being a Wallflower
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Stephen Chbosky | 2013 | Fiction & Poetry
10
8.2 (101 Ratings)
Book Rating
This book is one you can read time and time, again. Simultaneously beautiful and tragic. It details growing up, suicide, puberty, depression, anxiety, relationships, sex, drugs, and secrets. Told by way of secret letters in a diary style, each one showing more and more clearly the daily life of Charlie, a strange outcast who wants to belong but also just wants to observe. I highly recommend putting yourself through this wonderfully written adventure. Get ready to be heart broken by almost every page and uplifted by the moments of elation as though they were your own.
  
One is Come (Five in Circle, #1)
One is Come (Five in Circle, #1)
C.H. MacLean | 2014 | Science Fiction/Fantasy, Young Adult (YA)
10
10.0 (1 Ratings)
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I am looking forward to the next one in the series. [One is Come] by [C.H. MacLean] is a wonderful mix of magic, adventure and lore. The characters suffer from the typical teenage angst that is common everywhere and similar growing pains. The difference is the issue of puberty brings with it a secret that normal kids don't deal with.

The only people around the kids that can understand are their parents who have taken an oath not to speak of the magic. The conflicting powers fighting for control over the kids and their gift leads to more intrigue. I am still not sure who is good and who is bad, or even if there is a good or bad. Any book that has magic and dragons is always a good bet.
  
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Lenard (726 KP) rated Brightburn (2019) in Movies

Jun 2, 2019 (Updated Jun 3, 2019)  
Brightburn (2019)
Brightburn (2019)
2019 | Horror
We need to talk about Brandon
A childless couple in small town Kansas discover a spacecraft in their barn with a baby inside. They raise the child as their own, trying to give him flyover zone morals. So far, the story seems very familiar. However, ten years later, puberty hits Brandon hard. He gains super strength, the power to fly at the speed of light, and glowing red heat vision. He is also obsessed with human anatomy, but not the usual body parts, more like the liver and kidneys. His grey-haired mother and farmer father try to set him straight, but his alien vehicle calls out to him and tells him to destroy the world. What in the name of Caesar's Ghost is going on in Kansas?
  
Tempests and Slaughter: the Numair Chronicles Book 1
Tempests and Slaughter: the Numair Chronicles Book 1
Tamora Pierce | 2018 | Science Fiction/Fantasy, Young Adult (YA)
10
8.5 (4 Ratings)
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If you are a fan of the Tortall world you should live this book. Set before the Immortals Sonnet, we get to see what Numair's childhood was like as he grows up in Carthak and meets Ozorne and Valice. Unlike most of her books this is completely set in Numair' s aka Arran Draper' s p.o.v.
I would recommend to pre-teens and older however, suggest that parent's read first because male puberty is discussed. Also discussed is Bullying, slavery, death, learning mage craft, political intrigue, friendship, love, gods, war. and has a few graphic fighting and healing scenes. A fast-paced read that has world building to reacquaint people to known characters. it does have an abrupt ending but I'm also selfish in I didn't want the book to end.
  
The Kid Detective (2020)
The Kid Detective (2020)
2020 | Comedy, Mystery
5
5.5 (2 Ratings)
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Did you ever wonder what happened to Encyclopedia Brown after puberty? This film tries to explain one path his life could have taken. Abe Applebaum still runs a detective agency out of an office set up for him when his treehouse office was vandalized. His life fell apart when his friend and secretary went missing, and the town did not use his skills to solve the crime. He turned to drugs and alcohol and has no concept of time. His parents still bankroll his detecting career, but are about to cut him off. Now, a teenage girl wants to hire him to solve the murder of his boyfriend even though he has never worked an actual crime before. Can Abe return to the top of his game after years of sleazy private investigating private lives?
  
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What a story
Lyra and Pan's journey, and the characters they meet along the way, ranks as one of my favourite works of fiction. The descriptions, the details and varied points of view, make this an engaging and compelling read. I have to say, it was not easy to put down.
The changes the first film made were not good (as proved by the lack of sequels) though it had some great casting. The new series looked promising, but since I read the books bacķ in 2010, I think I will have to revisit them soon!

This magical coming of age story was so lovely, I gave the hardback trilogy to my 9 year old niece who loved it, and has been loving fantasy since!
I recommend this for the hitting puberty audience, since that is a strong theme throughout, but an adult with a love of the genre would love it too!.