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Teenage kicks

Clive Gifford - Author

This is a menu of things to try rather than a continuous story: its challenges range from everyday amusements to travel, charitable acts and life skills.

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LEISURE INTERESTS, HOBBIES & SPORT. Have you ever ... eaten with chopsticks for a week? Had a shopping trolley race? Helped out for a night at a homeless centre? This book will tell you how. With 101 challenges and targets for readers to try out, work towards or aspire to before reaching 16, this book is jam-packed with lots of great ideas, from the simple and quiet to the extreme and profane. With extreme action, travel, jokes and japes, charitable acts and life skills - there's something for every teen to tick off their 'must do' list.

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Themes in Context

A choose-your-own challenge list

The book collects 101 challenges and targets, with examples from everyday amusements to charitable activities and life skills.Exploratory / explanatory

How the book presents it: Its list-based format offers options to try, work towards or aspire to, rather than telling one continuous story.

Talk about: Which ideas feel like genuine invitations, and which might feel more like pressure to tick off a list?

Why It May Be Worth Reading

Its varied suggestions could prompt a young reader to choose personal goals or try unfamiliar activities, while the book's 'must do' framing may make it worth treating the list as inspiration rather than obligation.

What Deserves Attention

The challenges range up to extreme action, so consider whether the reader would prefer to choose a simpler activity.

A Conversation Worth Having

Which suggestions sound enjoyable or meaningful to you, and whether would you want to adapt or skip any that feel too daunting or impractical?

Reading Approach

Browse together and let the reader pick one appealing, manageable idea at a time. Read each activity's instructions before attempting it, particularly for activities involving other people or a more extreme challenge.

Confidence & Basis

Theme indicators describe how the book presents a topic; they are not a verdict on the whole book or your family's values. Confidence reflects how much book-specific material was checked. Only part of the book information was available, so some details remain unconfirmed.

What remains unconfirmed

A choose-your-own challenge list: The individual entries and how strongly they present each target are not established.

Teenage Kicks: 101 Things to do Before You're 16 - Clive Gifford - Google Books

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Checked: 1 October 2026.

Relevant to: A choose-your-own challenge list

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