The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole - National Council of Teachers of English
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The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole

By: Sue Townsend
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In her novel, The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole, author Sue Townsend (1982) chronicles in diary format a year in the life of fifteen-year-old Adrian Mole. This is no ordinary diary, though. Adrian is beset with angst over a variety of problems including his own, his parents’, and those of England, his home country.