TY - BOOK AU - Townsend, Sue TI - The growing pains of Adrian Mole SN - 9780141315973 (pbk.) : U1 - 823.914 PY - 2002/// CY - London PB - Puffin KW - Mole, Adrian (Fictitious character) - Fiction KW - Teenage boys - Fiction KW - Great Britain - Social life and customs - 1945- - Fiction N1 - Originally published: London: Methuen, 1984; A troubled teenager struggles against the slings and arrows of growing up and his own family's attempts to scar him for life. In between the ups and downs of his relationship with Pandora, he worries about his mis-spent adolescence and whether or not his genius will go unrecognized ER -