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Welcome to Friendship!

Your easy, no-silly-questions guide to friends, frenemies, and what to do when things get tricky
By Yumi Stynes and Dr. Melissa Kang
Series: Welcome To You
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From the best-selling authors of Welcome to Consent and Welcome to Your Period comes this warm, funny, indispensable guide for tweens and teens on navigating the highs and lows of friendship – including making friends, keeping them and what to do when things get tricky! In... Read More
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The Welcome To guide to all things friendship, from besties to drama to levelling up your social skills, from the multi-award-winning authors of Welcome to Your Period.

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From the best-selling authors of Welcome to Consent and Welcome to Your Period comes this warm, funny, indispensable guide for tweens and teens on navigating the highs and lows of friendship – including making friends, keeping them and what to do when things get tricky!

In this primer on all things friendship, journalist Yumi Stynes and adolescent health expert Dr Melissa Kang demystify the world of friendship with their characteristic warmth, kindness and no-nonsense advice. Welcome to Friendship is the perfect resource for any young person wanting to level up their social skills, whether they’re starting a new school, changing friendship groups or widening their social circles.

With a focus on building self-confidence, self-awareness and respect, Welcome to Friendship breaks down the basics and digs into tough topics, including:

  • Some actual ways to make new friends
  • Friendship groups and besties
  • AI and online friendships
  • Friendship and romance
  • Conflict and disagreements
  • Being a good friend during the hard stuff
  • How to spot when someone is being a bad friend

With plenty of real-life examples, first-person accounts and questions from real teens and tweens, Welcome to Friendship covers everything you need to know about finding friends and being a great friend yourself.

Read more in the multi-award-winning Welcome to You series by Dr Melissa Kang and Yumi Stynes:

  • Welcome to Your Period: Your easy, no-silly-questions guide to handling it like a boss
  • Welcome to Your Boobs: Your easy, no-silly-questions guide to your breast friends
  • Welcome to Consent: How to say no, when to say yes and everything in between
  • Welcome to Sex: Your no-silly-questions guide to sexuality, pleasure and figuring it out

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781761214196

Publisher: Hardie Grant Children's Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 28 July 2026

Country: Australia

Imprint: Hardie Grant Children's Publishing

Illustration: Full-colour Illustrations

Contributors:

  • Illustrated by Jenny Latham

Audience: Children, Teenage

DIMENSIONS

Width: 140.0mm

Height: 180.0mm

Weight: 300g

Pages: 208

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Children's Books Children’s & Teenage Non-Fiction Children’s, Teenage and Educational Dr. Melissa Kang Health & Wellness Pre-orders Pre-orders by Release Date Self-Help & Personal Development Series: Welcome To You Young Adult Yumi Stynes

About the Author

Yumi Stynes is a second-gen Japanese-Australian TV and radio presenter. She’s currently the host of Ladies, We Need to Talk, an award-winning podcast that explores all the trickiest topics and taboos about women’s health, including periods, discharge, difficult motherhood, and whether or not your vagina is weird. 

Most people know Dr Melissa Kang as the longest-serving expert behind the iconic Dolly Doctor column, but she also practised as a medical doctor for marginalised young people for 30 years. She is now a Professor of Adolescent Health at the University of Sydney. Dr Melissa is fifth-generation Malaysian-Chinese Anglo-Australian, which makes specialising in adolescent sexuality and sexual health all the more interesting. She continues to speak about these topics in the mainstream media. 

Together, they are the best-selling authors of Welcome to Your Period, Welcome to Consent, Welcome to Your Boobs and Welcome to Sex.

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