The Teenage Textbook is a novel by the Singaporean author Adrian Tan, first published by Hotspot Books in 1988.
The books followed the life of a female student named Mui Ee, studying at the fictitious Paya Lebar Junior College in Singapore.
Tan wrote the books while he was an undergraduate law student at the National University of Singapore.
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.
[2] In 1998, it was also made into a film, The Teenage Textbook Movie, starring Melody Chen and Caleb Goh, which topped the box office in Singapore for four weeks.