A guide to the law for young people, this text provides nformation on all aspects of young people's rights and responsibilities. It is intended to encourage young people to become more aware citizens. The user-friendly design uses case studies to illustrate the topics. The eighth edition contains a new section on Europe - its organizations and law. It has been thoroughly updated in light of changes to the law and is accompanied by a free on-line resource for teachers to download when using the book as part of their citizenship lessons.

 

 

This book is the winner of numerous awards

This book is part of a book series called Young Citizens Passport .

There are 144 pages in this book.

It is aimed at Young Adult readers. The term Young Adult (YA) is used for books which have the following characteristics: (1) aimed at ages 12-18 years, US grades 7-12, UK school years 8-15, (2) around 50-75k words long, (3) main character is aged 12-18 years, (4) topics include self-reflection, internal conflict vs external, analyzing life and its meaning, (5) point of view is often in the first person, and (6) swearing, violence, romance and sexuality are allowed.

This book was published in 2003 by Hodder Arnold .

Tony Thorpe is a freelance writer and consultant for the Citizenship Foundation.