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This is a book about you and for YOU!

For girls!

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Darren Hill and Alex Taylor

Challenges, facts, puzzles – to do on your own or with your mates.

Keep track of what and who you are.

On the way you’ll discover what God thinks of you and that he can be the best mate ever!

No girls allowed!

No girls allowed!

No girls allowed!

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Copyright © Darren Hill, Alex Taylor 2007 First published 2007 ISBN 1 84427 209 5 Scripture Union, 207–209 Queensway, Bletchley, Milton Keynes, MK2 2EB, England.

Email: info@scriptureunion.org.uk Website: www.scriptureunion.org.uk Scripture Union Australia Locked Bag 2, Central Coast Business Centre, NSW 2252 Website: www.scriptureunion.org.au Scripture Union USA PO Box 987, Valley Forge, PA 19482 Website: www.scriptureunion.org All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of Scripture Union.

The right of Darren Hill and Alex Taylor to be identified as authors of this work has been asserted by them in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

Andy Gray, Jordan Ross and Kevin Wade have asserted their right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 to be identified as illustrators of this work.

Scripture quoted from the Contemporary English Version © American Bible Society 1991, 1992, 1995. Anglicisations © British and Foreign Bible Society 1996. Published in the UK by HarperCollinsPublishers and used with permission.

British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data.

A catalogue record of this book is available from the British Library.

Printed and bound in Singapore by Tien Wah Press (PTE) Ltd Cover and internal design: kwgraphicdesign

Scripture Union is an international Christian charity working with churches in more than 130 countries, providing resources to bring the good news about Jesus Christ to children, young people and families and to encourage them to develop spiritually through the Bible and prayer.

As well as co-ordinating our network of volunteers, staff and associates who run holidays, church-based events and school Christian groups, we produce a wide range of publications and support those who use our resources through training programmes.

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Contents Welcome!

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Yourself

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You and your talents

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Your self-image

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Your world

10

You and God

10

Space

12

Calling Planet Earth…

14

Lots of animals

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Your head

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Experiments

18

Puzzles – Maths

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Logic

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Word

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Spot the difference

26

Quiz time

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Your whole body

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Sport –

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Extreme sports Winning and losing

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Teamwork

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Comedy sport?

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Dance

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God made snot!

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Bony stuff

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Your hands

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Be crafty

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Art!

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Cartoon time

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Tell us a story!

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Other hobbies

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Your senses

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Your nose – Test your friends’ noses!

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Your eyes – Read this!

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Your ears – Music!

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Touch – Taste –

Playing music

62

Recognising people by touch

64

Braille alphabet

65

Survey and smoothie recipes

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Your belly

68

Where does all the food go?

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Your stuff

70

Mobiles

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Computers and games

72

Gadgets

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Your heart

76

Just average?

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Doing what’s right

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More rights and wrongs

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Your past and your future

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Family trees

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What do you want to be?

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Where do you want to go?

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God and your future

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Your notes

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Answers

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Books

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WELCOME

Welcome!

YOUR GUIDES ON THIS JOURNEY

Welcome to in the year 20

and Hi!

First let’s say that this is YOUR book. Your book to enjoy and have fun with. Even better, you can make a record of what you’re like now that will entertain you when you get old and wrinkly! We’ll take a brief tour through the average life of a young lad – that’s YOU if you weren’t quite sure! Look at the Contents page and you’ll find there’s lots of stuff to interest and excite you. As you flick through the pages you’ll learn more about yourself and the

Alex Taylor is a fan of football, drama, singing and Fairly Odd Parents.

He’d like to thank his own fairly odd parents and his housemates for hogging the TV so he could write his bits of the book! and

world you live in. By the end you’ll hopefully know a little more about why you’re here and what you can or should or could be doing. There’s space for you to write and draw what you want, and extra pages at the back for you to write anything you want to remember.

So OK, with no more chat, let’s get straight on and start the adventure called YOUR LIFE.

Darren Hill is just a guy who was once a boy but still likes to act like one! He’d like to thank Becki, Natasha, Jonathan and his mum and dad, and all the people at SU for their support and for not asking him to grow up!

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Psst: Some answers are at the back but some answers are just upside down!

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Yourself You and your talents This page is where it all starts. It’s the place for you to say who you are and start to get to know yourself.

Challenge Put this book down and take a trip to the bathroom. Take a good long look at yourself in the mirror. Say “Hi”.

You are a very special person! And you’ll see as we go through

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much, MUCH more than just what you saw in front of you in the mirror.

Challenge Go through these questions and gaps and fill them in.

T h e sn a p sh o t o f m Name Age Where I live

▲ Either stick a passport-size picture of yourself here or draw yourself. (If the picture is really bad you can always stick a photo over the top of it!)

y lif e

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YOURSELF

What are you good at?

reading

Circle some of the things, listed on

writing

the right, you think you can do well,

football

or more importantly enjoy doing.

cricket

Look at things you’ve circled. Have you circled physical activities, or things that mean you can just sit down? Did you know sitting down all the time means we don’t get to use our bodies

swimming computer gaming sleeping eating

to the max? Then again, if we don’t use our brains

drawing

fully, they are not being stre-e-e-etched and tuned

arguing

up! So we need to try to get a healthy balance in

watching TV

our lives. Find a different colour pen and mark up

watching films

any activities you’d like to do more of.

talking cooking

You are about to discover that you’re a wonderful person, different to anyone else on the planet – good at some things and not so good at others.

Thinking about all the stuff we like and don’t like helps us to see who and what we are!

maths history music running tennis

Feel free to write anything you want in this book.

basketball

Make notes on the pages at the back to keep for

rugby

the future.

taking care of

In the years ahead you can pick up

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and see who

Any other suggestions?

(add your name) aged

pets…

(add your age) was.

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Your self-image On the last two pages you looked at who you are, what you like and what you could do more of. Now we’ll look at how you feel about yourself.

Challenge Go through the following questions and answer them as honestly as you can with a tick or a cross. There are no right or wrong answers. We’re all different.

1 Do you like to be told when you’ve done something well?

2 Do you enjoy being with your friends?

3 Do you do your work at school confidently?

4 Do you think you can do most things you try to do?

5 Are you very good at all sports?

6 Do you speak up at school when a question is asked?

7 Do you like to win when you play games or sports?

8 When asked to be at the front of the class to present something, do you look forward to it?

9 Do you like to start conversations with someone else?

10 Do you like answering these questions?

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YOURSELF

This is only a short list. If you ticked most of the questions, you are probably very confident. If you crossed most answers, then you may not feel so confident about yourself. It is possible to be too confident, or not confident enough. If you feel that you are one of these extremes you could look at ways of being different.

TOP TIPS If we are too confident it is easy to stop caring about what we are doing and why we are doing it.

1 Think about whether you could use some help in doing something before rushing in.

2 Give someone else the chance to do something before you do.

3 We have TWO ears and only ONE mouth! Use them in that ratio. In other words, listen to others more than talking yourself!

If we are not confident enough we may not attempt to do things that we would be very good at.

1 Ask for help if you are not sure what you should be doing.

2 Attempt to do something without thinking about it – you may find it easier than you think.

3 It is OK to get things wrong or mess up – everyone does that at some point.

NEXT! The next page may shine new light on you! And we’ll come back to this on pages 76–79.

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This is a book about you and for YOU!

For girls!

[

Darren Hill and Alex Taylor

Challenges, facts, puzzles – to do on your own or with your mates.

Keep track of what and who you are.

On the way you’ll discover what God thinks of you and that he can be the best mate ever!

No girls allowed!

No girls allowed!

No girls allowed!

Other titles in the series

0 www.scriptureunion.org.uk

ËxHSLIOEy27209 z

ISBN 978 1 84427 209 9

e, My book about m od my mates and G Darren Hill and Alex Taylor