Cecil in Space by Sid Hite is an excelent example of growing up and maturing. It shows how your emotions change as you go through your teenage years. The book tells you how your feelings and attitude twoards your friends can change as you get older and more mature and also how you can outgrow them or they can grow into you. Being a teenager myself I was really able to relate and identify with the changes and obstacles that Cecil encountered in his summer. I will definitely read this again.