This is a great guide to growing up, covering all those difficult topics. For ages 8 and over this will provide the information needed and debunk some of the myths around puberty. With each chapter covering a different area of puberty it will be perfect for any child who has unanswered questions that they may not want to ask a parent or teacher.

Growing up is a subject that some find very difficult to talk about and so these conversations often go unspoken and it’s left to the adolescent to find their own way. This is the perfect book for any parent, guardian, family member or friendship group that want to talk about growing up but don’t know where to start! It’s a step by step guide on everything any girl will need to know about womanhood!

The book is more than just a growing up guide, it’s a girl’s club that invites anyone and everyone to take part. I love that this diverse group of girls have their own quirks and personalities as everyone who reads the book is bound to relate to one of more of the characters. They all interject with their own ideas, thoughts and feelings about the different topics and as a reader you genuinely feel like you get to know the girls of Bunk 9.

The book is littered with beautiful illustrations and the overall presentation is what makes the book so much fun. There are funny stories, diagrams and even a boys section! As a parent it would be a great way to introduce the topic of puberty and could even be a book that you explore with your child to help them digest and understand everything together.

I absolutely loved this book! I think it's a great learning tool for girls and can help empower them from the inside out. It's great for girls to know their anatomy and to understand what is happening with their bodies. My childhood was pretty modest in this way, my family unwilling to see anything having to do with genitalia as anything other than sexual. My mom even told me once that tampons were for nosebleeds, and she wasn't joking. I vowed to never be that way with my girls, to always educate them and answer their questions honestly and truthfully. This book is definitely one that I will go to when these sorts of questions begin to arise. I've already recommended it to a friend that has a daughter about to enter the puberty stage.

Great book!

A must book for young girls to read about what they want to know. About the bodily changes and the things they needed for that...... A great gift for young girls...........

This was a cute, fun read. Great for kids who might be a little older say grade 5 and up. Younger kids wouldn't be focused enough to stay with this book.

I read this with my daughter so that I would have the perspective of a parent and the target audience. Puberty is not something my daughter is comfortable with and she's not afraid to express that emotion. This book did an excellent job of providing accurate information and tips that I respected as a parent and done in a way that she was open to. That's not an easy task. Some young women find themselves facing puberty as an exciting time to look forward to, but others face it with various combinations of discomfort for any number of reasons. This book pretty much addresses them all but not in a lecturing way or "in your face" manner. Nuchi write with wit, charm, tenderness, and encouragement. This is a book that I would proudly put on my bookshelf for any one to pick up and thumb through in the hopes that it would help another young woman. There's really not a person that I wouldn't recommend this book to.

A useful book for growing up. Not patronising, just tells it as it is. The cover doesn’t look like a classic ‘growing up’ book which I think makes it more appealing.

A must-read for all girls (and boys, parents, and everyone else, but first of all girls)! A book about growing up, puberty, and boy, I wish I had this book when I was younger.

I already tried this book some months ago when I got accepted for an e-arc on Netgalley. Sadly, the format didn't work out for me as it kept crashing my tablet/my pc programs. So I vowed to buy the book as soon as I could when it came out.

This is such an important and also very fun book. Because not only does it talk about a topic that is important to girls, but it also does it in a fun way. Namely with the whole camp and Bunk 9 stuff. Most of the book is about puberty, but we also see bits of the camp, they tell us about counsellors, about the layout at the camp, about the food, friendship, who snores, make comments about people going naked to check stuff (and not to do that), and about tons of other things (including some romance). The author really makes it feel like this is truly a book written by a group of girls at a camp. And I love that. Because most puberty books (that I saw/read) were pretty stiff and dry. It feels weird to read them and it is also a bit too clinical. This one makes a bit party of it all and I love it. You really feel like one of the girls.

The book is split up into weeks (there are 7 weeks of camp + one Last Day in total). Each chapter is about a different subject. From feelings to boobs to vaginas (or vulvas) to food and health and more!

I just loved the little notes with comments from the girls (or conversations) that dotted the pages.

One thing that stood out was the deodorant chapter. Do they not have those deodorants in America that doesn't stain/leave white spots? I know back when I was in the puberty this chapter would have been brilliant as you didn't have much choice in deodorant back then, but these days there are tons of fun and lovely smelling deodorants that don't stain your shirt, so you don't need to do all that stuff they do in the deodorant chapter nor do they have to worry about it staining shirts.

I loved it when the chapter with boys came up and we find out that the boys stole The Book from the girls to write their own chapter and talk about what changes for boys. That was just the best, I was already wondering how the girls would talk about that subject, but now it was up to the boys to do it, and they did it with lots of hilarity and penises. :P

One thing I would have liked to see, and something that I would have loved to read about during my puberty, is make-up. What kinds there are, how to use them, what you can do with them, make your own make-up. It is part of puberty/growing up to try out these things. I know that I was very curious on how to apply make-up and I would have benefited from a fun book like this to tell me the whats and hows.

The art? Fabulous! Fantastic! And so so much fun. Then again as soon as I found out it was Meg Hunt, whose picture book: Interstellar Cinderella I loved, I just knew I would love this one as well. And I did! She did an amazing book at making this book even more fun, interesting, and colourful. Plus I just adore how she drew the girls.

So yep, highly recommended! A fantastic book about growing up/puberty.

Bunk 9's Guide to Growing Up is a great new guide to growing up and body changes for girls. It's comforting, reassuring, and easy to read for girls ages 8-12. It's a fun book that girls will actually want to pick up and read, even reluctant readers. The facts are imparted in a gentle and sensitive way and aren't too graphic. This is a definitely a good "starter's guide" to puberty. Thank you to the publisher and Netgalley for providing me with a review copy.

I wish that I had something like this when I was growing up. I really appreciated that all perspectives were shown in the voice of girls, and that it normalized all different experiences.

This book approached the awkwardness and uncertainty of upcoming puberty in a fun way. I will absolutely be holding onto this when my daughters start to have more questions about their bodies and their emotions. The writing was informative, approachable, and I will even say that I learned a thing or two that I hadn't really previously considered. Exceptional presentation and delivery.

What a super book for young ladies who are getting ready for the changes of puberty. It is written in a fun and informative style and will appeal to those aged 10 and up.
I would recommend this as a way of finding out about growing up but without the awkwardness of asking mums if they feel a little embarrassed.

If I were 11 again I would have liked to read this book. It is informative but not in the grownup way. It feels like a conversation between friends, and sometimes a little strange but puberty is strange. The book covers the changes with puberty in a good way, and it stresses that none is the same which is something grownups forget sometimes.

The book cover most of the differences of being a girl, how the bodies are different and that there is nothing wrong with that. As well it covers feelings and how they are yours and ok. Still just reading the book might not answer all of the questions puberty comes with, and the book handles that in a great way by saying that one should talk to an older girl/women who already have been through puberty. Either being mom, sister, teacher, or a friends mom, anyone you are comfortable talking to. Maybe the moms should read the book to, knowing that they should not be offended if the daughter choose to talk to someone else.

What I liked most about the book was how it explained that it is ok to not be comfortable, and that you should not do anything you do not want to do when it comes to your body.

This is a fun little guide that many tweens and teens will enjoy checking out. I think that the artwork on the front will really make this fly off the shelf as it will appeal to the readers who enjoy graphic fiction and diary-type books.

An excellent guide to growing up, I love the format this book is told in and the artwork is beautiful. While this book did include a couple things that had no business being there I'm willing to ignore it because other people would probably say it belongs there.
This book has everything a gal needs to know about puberty, self-care, and just life in general and you feel a real connection to the girls of bunk 9 as they share their experiences and embarrassing moments.
I recommend for ages 11 and up
4 stars

I teach puberty at school and this would be a really useful book to have in the classroom! It is written in the style of a journal with lots of different girls so hopefully the reader will be able to relate to one of them. There are useful diagrams and drawings which explain things like what menstruation is and what the female body looks like as it goes through puberty.

Love the idea of this but can't get it open on my device.

This book could be a very useful book for girls who are going through, or are about to start puberty. It uses a set of characters to tell stories in the book about bunk 9. This could make the book more user friendly and more accessible for some girls, who may feel uncomfortable about the subject. The illustrations are useful and show exactly what is happening with captions to support this.

Bunk 9's Guide to Growing Up is a bright fresh approach to a universal topic - the art and science of growing up for girls. This book is presented in a notebook style with various color printing, drawings, illustrations that appeal to young ladies hitting puberty. It covers a wide spectrum of issues, presented as multicultural with girls that develop faster than others, all presented as a group that has gone to camp together for years and the changes they face. This is a non-fiction, almost in loose-leaf page journal style. It has a vibrant upbeat approach that presents the truth of the changes that happen to a girl's body when they become women. This covers other issues like hair care and hygiene, shaving, zits and lots more. Perfect for parenting collections, school nurses, for parents to give to their daughters before these changes happen. Parents, be warned to look at the book and read it for yourself before you give it to your daughter. It is best to come from you than for them to hear about these things through the grapevine. Then, somewhere in the middle, it discusses what is happening with boys at the same time. Be prepared for questions.

Set out in a really fun way, telling the story of the girls in 'bunk 9' returning to camp the next year and noticing all the changes their bodies have made. The text is fun and bright, printed to look like handwriting on note paper. The book is split into several sections, such as 'breasts' and 'periods', making it easy to flick to the part of the book you need. The book really does address puberty and 'growing up' in such a fun and interesting way, making the topics less taboo for young people. There are plenty of tips, quotes from the girls in bunk 9 (whether fictitious or not, these really help to give something for the reader to relate to) and useful diagrams. The book has thought of everything, and I really am impressed. If only I'd had a book like this when I was growing up! This is the bible for teen girls for sure.