Adulthood does not come
with a tutorial.
This is the closest thing.

Not at once. Each stands alone. Volume One covers the ground a thirteen to sixteen year old is dealing with now, and Volume Two covers money, contracts, work and leaving home, which start to matter from about sixteen. If you are buying for a younger teenager, start with Volume One. Volume Two will still be there in two years.

Buying both together costs less than buying them separately, and between them they are the complete twenty-two sections.

Because one book of twenty-two sections runs past six hundred pages at a readable size. That is a doorstop, not something a fifteen year old picks up. Splitting at sixteen keeps each volume to a size someone will actually carry, and means a younger reader is not paying for material about tenancy agreements they will not need for four years.

Schools receive the complete edition as a single volume, because a classroom works through it over two years rather than reading it in one sitting.

13–16Volume One: habits, friendships, online life, staying safe 16–20Volume Two: money, contracts, work, leaving home & beyondFirst aid, rights and scams do not expire

The school program splits at sixteen because that is where money, legal and work material starts to land. The book itself does not split. A fifteen year old reads the early sections now and the rest when they need them.

And nothing in it expires at twenty. First aid, contracts, consumer rights, workplace bullying and spotting a scam are just as useful at thirty and at forty. Plenty of adults read it and find a gap of their own.

No. The retail edition deliberately has no exercises, checklists or tests. It is written to be read alone. Workbooks exist separately as part of the school program.

No, and that is deliberate. Those differ everywhere and change. The book teaches how to find and use your own country's services, and includes a page for recording them.

Rarely. Sections on alcohol, relationships and risk describe how situations actually unfold and what to do when they go wrong. Lecturing is the fastest way to have a book closed.

George Wehbeh, over thirty years in learning and development, HR, executive training and youth work with UNICEF. Every judgment call is his: which twenty-two subjects belong in a book like this, what to leave out, which sources carry real authority, how to sequence material so it builds rather than overwhelms, and where a safety warning goes and why.

The substance comes from primary sources, the World Health Organization, UNESCO, UNICEF, national health services and professional bodies. Each cluster was then reviewed by a practitioner working in that field, and those written validations are held on file.

AI tools were used as production tools, the way a designer uses layout software: organizing source material, checking references, producing the figures and diagrams, and handling layout. The teaching itself, what a young person needs to know and how to say it so they will actually read it, is thirty years of professional judgment. No tool supplies that, and the book says so plainly on its own introduction page rather than leaving you to wonder.

Yes, and it is a full instructor-led program rather than just the book. Schools receive student books in two age bands, workbooks, teacher lesson plans, answer sheets, presentation decks and section posters, plus an optional staff briefing. It is localized to the country it is taught in, so emergency numbers, consumer rights, tenancy and employment law and university admissions reflect the actual system your students live under.

No, and it works better when they do not. The lesson plans assume no subject expertise, so any capable facilitator can run a session, and the program is built to bring in practitioners where it counts: a certified trainer for first aid, a lawyer for contracts, someone who works in finance for money. Much of it is hands-on rather than taught from the front.

Yes. Class sets and whole-school programs are available, including the teacher materials and an optional briefing session. Get in touch and say roughly how many students and which year groups.