num_pages: 336
description: I mean-I like girls. I get on well with them. And I like sex. Not that I've had all that much experience of it-not with another person being in the room at the same time, anyway. I just can't somehow put the two together. I can be getting on really well with a girl but as soon as I get an inkling that there might be a chance of anything happening, I just freeze up. It's scary. Everything you never wanted to know about sex and boys-but probably should Dino, Jonathan, and Ben have got some problems, mostly with Jackie, Deborah, and Alison.Dino's girlfriend Jackie, the most beautiful girl in school, drives him mad with lust, but won't go all the way and relieve Dino of his desperately unwanted virginity. Jonathan likes Deborah. She's smart and funny and she makes him feel very sexy, but she's kind of plump and his mates won't let him hear the end of it. Ben's been seduced by Alison, the pretty young drama teacher at school. And what seems like a dream come true is actually making him miserable. Award-winning author Melvin Burgess has written a daringly honest and often hilarious account of contemporary teenage life, and the ups and downs that surround "doing it."
language: English
title: Doing It
titlecomplete: Doing It
genres: Fiction, Coming Of Age, Teen, Young Adult, Romance, Humor, Sexuality, Realistic Fiction, Contemporary, High School
ratings_count: 3001
awards: awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Booktrust Teenage Prize, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Los Angeles Times Book Prize
category: Young Adult Literature, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis
category: Jugendbuch
publisher: Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)