The Teenage Textbook
by Adrian Tanliterary work· published 1988
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The Teenage Textbook is a young adult fiction novel by the Singaporean author Adrian Tan, first published by Hotspot Books in 1988. The book followed the life of a female student named Mui Ee, studying at the fictitious Paya Lebar Junior College in Singapore. Tan wrote the book while he was an undergraduate law student at the National University of Singapore. The book was a bestseller in Singapore, and was followed by a sequel, The Teenage Workbook, in 1989. The two books sold over 50,000 copies. In 2015, The Teenage Textbook was selected by The Business Times as one of the Top 10 English Singapore books from 1965 to 2015, alongside titles by Arthur Yap and Daren Shiau.
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The Teenage Textbook was adapted into a 1998 film.
The Teenage Textbook Movie1998 · film · dir. Philip Lim · IMDb ↗IMDb6.6The Teenage Textbook Movie is a film adaptation of Adrian Tan's bestselling 1988 novel The Teenage Textbook. It is a lighthearted look at the lives of four students in Singapore as they start junior college.
