Her most recent novel, Wasted , won several awards, including the Scottish Children’s Book Award (older readers) and was longlisted for the Carnegie Medal. During the teenage years the brain is undergoing its most radical and fundamental change since the age of two.

I really liked this structure, I’m sure different readers will particularly like different sections but by presenting the information in a range of ways there will definitely be something for everybody. Nicola Morgan's entertaining book is written for the teenagers themselves, to explain the phase they are going through, so they can develop tools to cope with the intensity of the teenage years. I’d been perfectly happy with my career as a teenage novelist, winning awards and engaging with young readers, and then, seemingly out of the blue – except not, as I’d been studying the human brain for ten years already by that stage! It is very rare that an author succeeds in writing a book for teenagers which is also a 'must read for their parents and teachers.The human brain hasn’t changed in that time – but individual brains adapt according to what they do and experience.

Contrary to popular (parental) opinion, teenagers are not the lazy, unpleasant - frankly, spotty - louts they occasionally appear to be. Contrary to popular (parental) opinion, teenagers are not the lazy, unpleasant – frankly, spotty – louts they occasionally appear to be. This month, I have a few articles scheduled to introduce to you the new edition of Blame My Brain – the Amazing Teenage Brain Revealed. This book was recommended to me by work colleagues (my area of work is children/young people's mental health).

If you fail to comply with this obligation, we may have a right of action against you for compensation. The final one is again one that’s been around for a while but is delivered in such a great way with children’s voices and a brilliant resource to help people understand how it feels and what’s going on for children with developmental trauma.