12 Again
(AR) Bernadette unwittingly drinks a potion just before making a toast "to youth," she wakes up and finds herself age 12 again, living in her childhood home with her mother. Fairy magic is at work; while it's modern times outside the house, inside it's 1972. (Time) AR cover

Abernathy Chronicles, Part Six, The
- (excellent minor age changing ability story elements, female teen to young adult to older adult age appearance alterations, also adult rejuvenated and ARed glimpses)
Irving McMurren, 2008.
p60:
"She said that every once in a while she speaks Gaelic for no apparent reason and she was really sorry.
...I was still thinking about the proverb when I looked over at her. For a second her face was that of a young girl with freckles. When I looked again she was normal with her flashing green eyes, pale skin and award-winning smile.
Something about Megan was strange, very strange. I glanced at her quickly, and was sitting next to a mature lady in her forties with crows feet around the eyes and lines on her forehead.
Megan was aware of my glances and suggested that when we stop for lunch she would explain everything.
...We sat on the grass in the shade and ate the ham sandwiches and drank the Molson's. Megan began her tale:
My father died in a freak accident, ... and my mother died giving birth to me. I was raised by druids who were polytheists and I believe they used me in several of their experiments. I was the recipient of a series of transformation spells that gave me the ability to change the age of my body at will. I think you may have witnessed some changes back there in the car. Please do not be alarmed.
...I told Megan about my experiences with ghosts and the fact that I was going to write a book about them.
I kept glancing in her direction as we talked but I never saw any appearance changes.
...She was a really compatible companion and I started to look forward to the evening together. She must have read my mind because the hand-holding became almost commonplace. We were undoubtedly attracted to each other.
...I found a Comfort Inn and booked us a room.
I had a bottle of vodka along which I brought in and the two of us had some cocktails.
...That night we slept in our separate beds. About midnight I went over to her bed, probably intent on something nefarious. She was in her fourteen year old girl phase so I went back to...
p65:
Megan said that she felt a presence from down in the cellar. Her heart had speeded up. I looked over at her. She had aged drastically and was now a woman in her forties. Still attractive, but not as nice as her usual self.
...The cellar was very dark so I went back and retrieved my flashlight from the car. When I returned Megan was just a child and she reached up and held my hand tightly. I told her to wait in the Jeep and she left me like an obedient teenager.
...I spotted someone swimming in nearby Lake Temiscouata. It was her!
I walked over to the shore and called her name. Megan answered with a wave and then swam back to the beach. There was towel lying next to her pile of clothing. I held it up and it was my gorgeous hitchhiker who took it from me.
... This was no teenager. This was a woman in her forties.
p67:
I looked at Megan in the moonlight. She was terrified, her little teenage face with eyes as big as saucers. I grabbed her hand and carefully we backtracked to the jeep and drove off.
... She gradually returned to her lovely self and we climbed into bed. She continued to cling to me most of the night and I could sense age changes taking place on an almost regular basis. It was the teenager phase that worried me most, so as much as I was tempted I held off with the lovemaking. In the morning everything was normal. We showered and dressed and had some delicious pancakes before checking out of the inn.
p81:
...When we checked in Megan was her usual self. Then when we went downstairs for more ice she converted to her older self and walked right past the poor man with the ice bucket and winked. I know he must have thought something was going on because when we went out later he had a big smile on his face and a twinkle in his eyes.
Megan confessed in the car on the way to the diner. I just bet he went up to the room to see if I had another woman in there.
At least she didn't do her teenager thing. That could have had a serious effect, although I don't know with this guy.
p82:
I... took my foot off the brake and the car appeared to be rolling backwards up the hill.
Megan was actually a little scared at first, probably because I pretended to be frightened too.
It was the Magnetic Hill that gave me an idea... It has to do with her ability to change her appearance.
The first premise was that she would be able and willing to change at will and the second premise was that the ability would continue at least for the foreseeable future. Megan said that when she truly falls in love the older Megan will get younger and the teenager will get older until they meet up in her present age.
The keyword is "love". Once this happens the change ability will disappear forever. I also brought up her ability to be clairvoyant and she didn't know if that would fade...
p83:
I put aside the idea of getting her to do her act for money in front of an audience...
As best I could tell the teenage Megan was now about seventeen and I resolved that the next time she appears in the shower I would make love to her.
...first she was turning into a heck of a woman and second Megan might just get a bit upset to the point of at least slowing down the process and giving me more time to get rich. I should say give 'us' more time to get rich.
...We had another vodka. Then Megan changed into a seventeen-year-old and I became a dirty old man. After it was over she didn't seem upset at all, which kind of put a glitch in my plans. We would have to hurry.
In the morning I went out and bought a ticket and brought it back to the room.
...At noon I went back up and she was lying on the bed asleep.
p84:
- The Ghost Writer -
...Megan was in the shower. The Megan who hitchhiked was under the spray. Beautiful as ever.
She told me that her ability to change her age had gone, but she still sensed a residue of clairvoyance, at least for now.
We would be back in Nova Scotia by then, either as a rich couple but a couple regardless."

Acorna: The Unicorn Girl
(accelerated growth) 1997, Anne McCaffrey, Margaret Ball. (Also Acorna's Quest, Acorna's People, Acorna's World) The young Acorna constantly astonishes her "uncles" with her amazing growth rate and superior intelligence.

Advanced Candle Magick
(male facial hair) Ray Buckland, 2002. Contains a spell for male puberty.

After the garden: a novel
(dream sequence, self-image APed growth scene) Doris Jean Austin, 1987. Elzina begins an odyssey of growth and self-discovery in Jersey City during the 1940s.
"For the first time in decades, Rosalie dreamed old dreams. All night long she dreamed she hid in Alabama woods with Moses and watched the smoldering ashes of home. She grew taller; leaves rustled under her as her legs stretched out between trees and her body lengthened into a young woman of fifteen, lying face down among shrubs and rocks, expecting God to jump out of the bushes and lift her right up out of their lives to somewhere she didn't ..."

Alice in Wonderland
- (AA APed) Alternative/Dark Alices fan art
- (preteen size changes) - illustrations - illustrations (Process)

Alice in Wonderland
- (AA FF) adult Alices fan art
- (FF AA APed) "Alice Is Growing Up" changes fan art.

Alice in Wonderland
- (size changes, some CBed) original
- derivative works growth scenes - illustrations art

Alice in Wonderland
- (UC looks like APed) fan art growth spurt (Process)
- (kinda looks like Aped AA) 1916, illustr. Gordon Robinson. TFs

All About Children
(FF AA) years

Almost Paradise
(UC scene BE, coming of age) Susan Isaacs.
"Although quite short, she was no longer a girl. Her breasts grew so fast and so large that her middy blouse strained at the seams. Her hips flared from a dainty waist, and her stick legs softened at the calves and thighs. Her grandfather averted his eyes as this lush child walked about the apartment."

Alternative Alices
(Alice GTS CB) "Visions and Revisions of Lewis Caroll's Alice Books" The University Press of Kentucky. For once Alice's clothes don't grow with her.
Alice CB text

American School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, The
(AP, book not yet written) Untitled sequel by Ann Hearn Ziluck. The second book has been started. The kids have so much fun with an aging spell - it only lasts for 4 hours - but it ages them 4 years!

Androids From Milk
(age change ability, male age stasis) Eugen Egner, translated by Mike Mitchell, 2001. An anarchic, surreal novel. Reuben Hecht has been stuck at the age of 17 for 20 years. He decides not to return home, as he has heard reports that the family GP and the parish priest are pursuing him to put him in a children's home for good, since he will never come of age. He starts on a surreal odyssey together with Edwina, who can alter her age at will, to the mysterious Colony to bring back some of the androids developed from UHT milk that have been reported there. cover
Androiden auf Milchbasis 2/1999, Germany. Ruben is a permanent 17 year old, having been attacked by a mysterious illness in the Ivory Coast. He will never reach maturity and thus risks being arrested and put in a children's home. Not to be outdone is Edwina, aged 56, who thwarts the aging process by changing at whim into the form of a girl aged 6.

Angel Haven
(AP, old aged) 2002 Justin Chiang novel. Deirdre tried to quicken the aging. 6 children aged to 2 years old overnight.

Animorphs
- (TF) Novel series. "The Invasion" by K.A. Applegate, Scholastic, 1996. Five teenagers meet an alien, and gain the power to change their bodies into any animal they had previously touched. Applegate's descriptions of the morphing process are well written. Cassie is the one who catches on to the morphing the quickest. She has figured out how to retain a bodysuit when she changes while everyone else has their clothes falling off, which means they are naked when they return to human form.
- (male AP) 41 "The familiar" One morning Jake wakes up, and he's 25 years old. And the world Jake-the-kid went to sleep in has changed. male

Animorphs
Discovery, The
(possible FF scene) Katherine Applegate, 1999. Only a tiny portion could be extracted:
"And let me tell you something: time really is relative, because I aged about five years in five seconds. It formed itself into a coil..."

Animorphs
(excellent AP scene, at least some CB) "An Alien Dies" or The Andalite Chronicles (Elfangor's Journey, Alloran's Choice, An Alien Dies). Katherine Applegate 1997.
There's a nice bit towards the end involving the creation of a personal universe, and the human main character ends up going into the middle of a time storm. Long story short, she goes from like 12 to 18 in the space of 5 mins - even uses her rapidly growing finger nails to off one of the bad guy's "pets" that is trying to eat her.
Partial text fragments. Large parts missing:
283: "... "My fingernails! They're growing!" She held up her hands so that my back-turned stalk eyes could see them. ... The hard portion at the end of her human fingers had grown half an inch. (Your hair is growing, too,) I said. ... She felt it. "My God, it's grown an inch. It's like it would grow in a few weeks!" ..."
284: "... (My hooves are growing, too. That's why I tripped. It's something I was afraid of. As we get closer to the center of this..."
285: "... I looked at Loren and had to stop myself from crying out. Her fingernails were two inches long! ... Her toenails were sticking through the fabric of her artificial hooves! And her golden hair was so long it reached to the ground. ..."
288: "... (The Time Matrix! It is here!) "Yeah. Now what do we do about it? Look at my hair. Look at my fingernails. ..."
289: "... Her hair was now so long that it piled on the ground. And her toenails extended nearly a foot through the fabric ..."
290: "... But Loren shook her head, which caused a ripple through the massive pile of her golden hair. ..."
292: "... tangled in the wild mess of her hair. (This fight isn't over yet, Visser!) I said, and I struck! FWAPP!"
293: "... And her fingernails, growing so fast that I could actually see them grow, were growing into the Mortron. FWAPP! The visser struck. ..."
294: "... in her hand around and threw it with all her might. The Mortron slipped off the end of Loren's claw fingernails. ... It came within a hair of my face. Loren calmly picked up her softball bat from ..."
296: "... We have to get out of here fast. My hair is still growing. My nails are out of control. I feel like I'm getting older. My ... well, I'm getting older, I'll leave it at that. But I swear I'm suddenly eighteen!" (Yes. Your face is changing. ..."
298: "... This me has aged. I'm older. I must be almost eighteen now, judging from the way I've grown. People would notice." ..."
(Thanks to Blackheart, Cheergurl, and The Process Forum for the info)

Animorphs
(TF, some CBed) "The Invasion", #1, K.A. Applegate novel.
Gigantic drapes as big as the sails of a ship were falling all around me. They were my clothes.
Tobias had dropped to all fours, clothing now half-draped over him, like so many rags. The change back to human form was at least as strange as the change to cat. The tail was sucked up like a snake going up a vacuum cleaner. Tobias stood there, looking embarrassed. He quickly pulled on his clothes. "Maybe with some practice we can figure out how to change back into our clothes."
A thing that was part horse and part Cassie smiled at us with big horse teeth and said, "Hey, kids." Marco suddenly sat down. Very hard. He had never seen a morphing. "It's cool," I said, trying to sound very relaxed. "It's just Cassie."
I decided I'd better be a gentleman and look away. After all, when Tobias and I had morphed, we'd kind of morphed right out of our clothes. But I noticed that as Cassie emerged from the horse she was wearing a skintight blue outfit. One of those outfits girls wear to do aerobics. "How did you manage to morph with clothing?" I asked. "When Tobias and I did it . . . well, let's just say it's a good thing neither of you girls was around." "It took some practice," Cassie said, "And it can only be tight clothing. I tried it with a coat on. It got shredded.
About three minutes after he'd started the change, there was a completely normal Tobias, sitting naked on the end of my bed. I loaned him a pair of pants and a shirt, but my shoes were all the wrong size.
- Teen TF fan art scene.

Anne of Green Gables
(flash forward) Lucy Maud Montgomery, novel series. P 196: "...only the one chance. If I don't grow up right I can't go back and begin all over again. I've grown two inches this summer, Marilla. Mr. Gillis measured me at Ruby's party. I'm so glad you made my new dresses longer." P 197: "...there were one or two parties almost verging on grown-up affairs; Marilla felt a queer regret over Anne's inches. The child she had learned to love had vanished somehow and here was this tall, serious-eyed girl of fifteen."

Annie John
(flash forward growth) Jamaica Kincaid, 1985. Ch 7: "The Long Rain". The rain continues for 3 1/2 months. As it stops, Annie is healed. Ma Chess goes home just as mysteriously as she had come. Finally, Annie's mother takes her outside and they realize that Annie has grown several inches during her illness and now towers over everyone. Annie is taller than both her parents. They have to buy her new uniforms and shoes for school.

Anybodies, The
(TF AA, coming of age) N.E. Bode, 2004. 11 year old Fern meets her father, the Bone. He is an "Anybody", who can change into someone or something else. Her mother was even more talented.
"You mean you can dress up like anybody else and people will believe you? You mean you're actors?
"Actors? Ha!" said the Bone. "Can an actor shrink fifteen inches to be a child?" (Inry)
Sequels:
Nobodies, The 2005
202: "Fern felt something inside her melt away and her body began to swell. It grew large."
277: "And then he was just a boy. His body grew pink, hair-less and lanky. His snout and whiskers dissolved and his face appeared..."
279: "Bort," she said, "you never grew up. Why didn't you ever grow up?" "I couldn't. I don't know why. I just couldn't."
Somebodies, The 2006

Apprentice Adept
(adult rejuvenation & OA) Series. The Yellow Adept uses a potion to restore her youth. The difficulty of making it keeps her old most of the time.

April Ghouls day (Graveyward School#11)
(AR, RN) Stone, Tom B. Roller blading 12 year old runs into the terrifying evil, ugly Principal Dr MorthHouse and they swap bodies. For a while the girl enjoys bossing teachers and kids around.

Archer's Goon
(AP scene, male ARed to baby, male AP's) 13 year old Howard learns he travelled back in time twice as an adult. On each occasion he was adopted by his family as a baby found in the snow. 8 year old sister Awful likes to steal alcohol and shriek deafeningly.
- (AP text)
--- When Howard got there, there was Awful racing out of the gates, chased by 20 angry little girls. Awful was shouting "My big brother's here to hit you! Hit them, Howard!"
Howard did not know what Awful had done to the other little girls, but knowing Awful, he suspected it was something bad. He swung his bag menacingly, hoping that would frighten the little girls off, but there were so many of them and they were so angry it ended by being quite a fight. And the little girls called names.
--- "I can keep people from your town for an hour, but beyond that I don't let anyone risk himself."
"Why?" said Awful.
"Because the longer anyone stays in the past, the older he becomes in his present day. You won't want to go home a grown woman, will you?"
Awful stared at him, not believing it.
"It's true," said Hathaway. "I found out the hard way. After 2 years here, I was an old, old man in your time - and I don't age as fast as you would."
--- All he could see was that the person was quite small to start with. Then, as the figure put a foot onto the third step and heaved up to it, he saw it was Awful - Awful in the act of growing. What she was doing here, he had no idea, except that she was surely looking for Howard. And with that instinct that makes younger ones unerringly follow elder ones, particularly where they are not wanted, Awful had come into the unfinished building too.
Awful grew as he watched. By the time she was on the 3rd step, she was a large, fat schoolgirl in a maroon uniform, with a sudden strong look of [her ancestor] Shine. In fact, she was completely a fair-haired version of Shine. She heaved up onto the 4rth step. There she was suddenly skinny and Awful again, but nearly 6 feet tall, with a scornful grown-up look. Then she came up on to the marble floor and became a student about Fifi's age, but much better-looking.
Howard-Venturus gaped. He had no idea Awful would grow up that pretty. Beside him, Erskine's eyes popped, and a great admiring grin spread over his little face.
Awful looked at them both accusingly. "What's happened?" she said. "What have you done to Howard?" Then she looked down at herself. She looked horrified. She gave the well-known earsplitting Awful scream and ran away down the steps again, lunging from one to the other with her arms out and dwindling as she went .Her small, misty shape crashed out of the door and vanished, mistily sobbing.
He threw himself out of the half-built doorway as Howard again...
"Howard!" Awful shrieked joyfully. She was sheltering between two of the diggers...
It was all very well, he thought, but Erskine had not had to be a child 3 times over to get that spaceship.
"You were Venturus when we both were grown-up, weren't you?" Awful whispered to him as they climbed the steps.
...the first of their 2 long arguments after Awful had pointed out that Fifi would probably turn into an old woman when she went into the marble temple.
- (male AP, male ARed)
--- Howard put his right foot down. To his surprise, that foot was not in a boot, but in an old brown training shoe with yellow laces. Ahead of that foot in its trainer, he could see, rather mistily, a flight of 4 shallow marble steps leading up among the scaffolding.
He went up the first step. His left boot did not go spuff there because it was no longer a boot, but a neat shoe at least 2 sizes larger than the boot. It took quite a push to get himself and his right foot onto the 2nd step. The training shoe on that foot was now black, and so were the jeans on the leg above it...
...The 3rd step took an even bigger shove, and the foot that came down on that step was larger still, in an old tennis shoe, with ragged blue jeans above it. At the 4th step... his right foot came down in a spongy, bootlike shoe and a tight white trouser leg. And it was the same kind of shoe and white trouser on the other leg when he forced himself forward onto the marble floor.
Howard took a very much easier step forward, and nearly fell over. He had simply not realized how much he had grown. He spread long arms for balance and looked dizzily down long white-trousered legs.
...And he must have been more than 7 feet tall.
"I suppose I have to grow up to get to the future," he said out loud. His voice rang deeply around the marble spaces and made him jump.
...he began balancing in careful strides...
"I wouldn't have known this was me!" he heard himself saying.
Fully grown up, he seemed to be built on the same huge lines as Erskine... his eyes were the same, but his face was so much thinner that it looked quite different. He wore his hair longish and swept back in a way he did not care for at all.
"Looks horrible," he muttered, rumpling his hair about with a large hand...
Howard walked on down, unsteadily learning to balance his height...
--- Venturus-Howard said: "I found out the hard way, like Hathaway did... When I walked out of the door, I must have turned into a baby on the spot - only I didn't know I had, of course. I didn't realize what had happened until I was 13 and my powers had started to come back."
"I didn't know they would adopt me twice. I really didn't know that when I went outside and turned into a baby, I was going to take everything back 13 years with me. I had no idea it would be snowing then either."
--- He saw his foot come down in the brown training shoe with yellow laces, but this time his other foot came down in the pair to it. It was much easier to get up the steps. Howard arrived at the top only an inch or so taller. Ginger arrived several inches taller, but without his 2 black eyes and not limping at all.
...Ginger called out, leaping down the steps. "And I tell you what-" But at that point he became a year younger. "Ow!" he yelled, hobbling. Both his black eyes were back.
--- Howard looked at Erskine warily. He rather thought Erskine's eyes had flicked onto Awful after that.
...he had taken a look at the world and decided to farm it. When he did, he would offer Awful a share.
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(2bya info)

Archer's Goon
(AR/AP) Diana Wynne Jones novel. (Jeffr_2bya)

Atlas of Children's Growth: Normal Variation and Growth Disorders
(flash forward growth AP) Tanner, Whitehouse. 32 boys and 20 girls selected from hundreds of growth photo series illustrate the underlying continuity of child and adult somatotypes (Walker and Tanner 1980), the relative constancy of size and shape during childhood, longitudinal series of monozygotic twins from childhood to maturity, and male changes during adulthood.
G. Petersen produced an Atlas for Somatotyping Children in 1967, closely following Sheldon's Atlas of Men. Instead of Sheldon's large format cameras he used 35mm.

B J: A Supernatural Horror Story
(female growth CB, kinda OA disguise) Kimile Aczon.
The woman shrieked at her, "Take my hand! Take my Goddamned hand, you old hag!" Wilda took a hesitant step back and the woman's face, in a cluster of rage, slowly changed into a hideous caricature of the young Wilda Elvers.
Her eyes turned from hazel into a shimmering grey and filled with a look of malice and loathing. Her eyebrows expertly arched, grew hairy and connected at the bridge of her now misplaced nose. Her nose now sat on the side of her cheek, and her mouth, once ruby-red and sensuous, became an ugly slit of black and blue at the bottom of her chin directly below her bibulous nose. Her hair fell out in clumps. Long strands of burnished brown slowly fell to the floor.
The woman's slender body seemed to grow and elongate. The clothes she wore ripped at the seams and fell from her body in tatters. Her body...

Baby Sitters Club, The
(teen FF) Series. The girls aged normally for the first 10 books (during which they had their 13th birthdays), but afterward they were frozen in time, although they often acted much older than 13-year-olds. They were allowed to age again at the end of the series, and graduate to high school.

Ballerina!
- (AA APed reflection) by Peter Sis, 2001, Greenwillow. Equipped with a trunkful of dress-up clothes, her dancing aspirations and a full-length magic mirror, young Terry dreams she is a prima ballerina. With each change of dancewear, she transforms: She puts on her pink tutu and dances The Nutcracker," as Terry's reflection on the facing page shows a graceful, adult ballerina starring as the Sugarplum Fairy. On the next spread, the girl changes into a red leotard, and her exotically dressed reflection leaps over volcanoes in "a fire dance." The verso pages show the little girl in simple outline performing the various steps, while the recto pages show a more-detailed, grown-up mirror image dancing the various roles with grace and spirit, just the way little ballerinas would like to do.
- (dream sequence AA APed)
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Bang Crunch
- (accelerated growth rate) Neil Smith.
"Your mum, bewildered by your ballooning vocabulary, takes you to the doctor's for a three-month-long battery of tests, and in between these tests you master longhand and long division, read Madame Bovary, grow twelve inches, and when all the results are back your mum breaks down and curses herself for calling you Eepie, an old woman's name...
...has begun aging you a month a day so that on the way home you need to stop at the drugstore for panty shields and antiperspirant.
... New in town? because with breasts and your mum's miniskirt you're no longer recognizable."

Bang Crunch
(AP, AR) Neil Smith 2007 debut volume with 9 stories. The title story is about an 8 year old girl with Fred Hoyle syndrome, in which the aging process is speeded up and then reverses. Eepie Carpetrod won't live much beyond her 10th birthday. She ages a month a day, and by the time her mother trots her to a doctor her vocabulary has ballooned, she has grown 12 inches, has mastered longhand and long division and has read Madame Bovary. Her mum argues she's eternal, her mind and soul expanding forever like the universe, an allusion to the Big Bang theory. She knows her death will be her brain collapsing under its own weight, the Big Crunch. The pace is frenetic, to match Eepie's experience of life, and the 2nd-person narration is weirdly effective in its matter-of-factness (you know, you live, you die). The disease whisks her forward in time, then back. She may be the first character in fiction to expand and contract with the universe.

Beanpole
(growth) 1990 Barbara Park. Lanky 13 year old Lillian Pinkerton, the tallest girl in school, is miserable about being a "beanpole" and a loser. She hopes that Pom Squad tryouts will prove she measures up.

Beholder's Eye
(TF) Julie E. Czerneda. Once you're immortal and can change your cells, why would you stay in one shape all the time?

Belgarath the Sorcerer
(adult age stasis, TF) Prequel. An immortal sorcerer's appearance is connected to their mental image. They shapechange simply by thoroughly visualizing their new body. While the original Belgarath goes for the old vagabond storyteller look, or the hale and hearty old man appearance, his daughter Polgara always looks stunning. Cronehood isn't exactly her idea of a positive impression.

Bell, The
(UC scene) Sean O'Faolain, Peadar O'Donnell, 1940. p 398 "...not in second-hand clothes, but in something new from head to foot." "...who ran around in her old Communion dress that was like a splitting grey sausage skin over her growing body, the sleeves strained below her elbows,..."

Beloved
(ghost AP) Toni Morrison 1987. The title character is a girl who can only be described as having been AP'ed. The ghost of Sethe's murdered child appears as a baby. It changes its behavior and starts to crawl upstairs, becoming spiteful and abusive. Later the ghost returns in the body of a young woman who says her name is Beloved. She has a mentality somewhere between ages 2 and 5. She gets pregnant and dominates Sethe in a kind of role reversal.

Bentley's Miscellany
- (male adult growth CB) p321:
"The little soldiers began to grow gradually, but perceptibly. First a few lines, and then by half inches.
Before all, though, was the appetite of the troops. The birdcage no longer sufficed as barracks.
Neumann was compelled to give up to the soldiers, who were now 8 inches high, the best room in the house, while they exercised in the flower-garden in front. The uniforms, too, grew too tight for the growing soldiers, and burst at the seams. ... the little regimental tailors cut up into collars, trouser-stripes, hats etc.
The worst thing, though, was that the soldiers did not look half as nice as before, when they had grown awhile. By the time they attained their full size, the Neumanns could not remain in their own houses for billets."

Best and the Brightest, The
(alien AP) Susan Wright 02/98. Star Trek series: "The Lost Years: 2368 - 2371" Starsa is an alien youngster old enough to be in Starfleet Academy, but she hasn't gone through puberty yet and is almost accepted as the child of the group, when she suddenly becomes a woman right before her friends' eyes.

Between Husbands and Friends
(flash forward BE'd, coming of age) Nancy Thayer.
"Matthew doesn't seem comfortable with his early height and the attendant stretch of his long arms and legs..."
"...Margaret (14) wears a faded button-down shirt of her father's and a pair of her enormous jeans. It's a good guess that she's trying to hide her body. Over the past year her breasts have sprouted like tubers, like squash, large and firm, organically incontrovertible evidence that she's growing up."
"...she wants to have boyfriends (she wants to have lovers!)..."

Beyond Forever
(TF) Rosalyn Alsobrook. Alisha finds herself transported back to 1881! Her clothes went back in time with her "soul", but not her body. She looks like a woman named Andrea Knight who has swindled money.

Beyond the Myth
(AA FF APed) Teddy Begay. Includes the tale of "Changing Woman".

Big Sarah's Little Boots
(UC, AP flash forward) 24p. Soft Cover. Follows Sarah's adventure of out growing her clothes.

Black House
(ghost APed) Novel by Stephen King, Peter Straub. Mother glimpses deceased daughter as adult.

Blue Lagoon: a romance, The
(coming of age) H. De Vere Stacpoole. 2 children grow up alone on island.

Blue Moon Day
(male AP) ISBN: 0 86241 609 4, Alison Prince. Dave grows up overnight and has to deal with Indian conjurers and rich parking wardens.

Body and Soul
(bodyswap AR) Jennifer Archer. 35 year old Lisa trades places with 20-something college student Tory, who gets amnesia in her older body. The new Lisa gets a job with her husband, who finds he's inexplicably drawn to this vivacious college student, who reminds him so much of his wife.

Body Project, The
(UC scene, coming of age) Joan Jacobs Brumberg. Simone de Beauvoir ruminated about her changing body. At 15 her clothes no longer fit, and she had to wrap her breasts in bandages because her favorite beige silk party dress pulled so tightly across her new bosom that it looked "obscene." The process of sexual maturation results in a peculiar mismatch between girls' biology and today's culture.

Bodyswap: The Boy who was 84
(male mind transfer) L. P. Howarth, Catnip Publishing, 2009.
When Will's body is stolen from him by a strange old man called Hornbeam, he's determined to get it back. Despite news of the windfall that should have made him a millionaire, being old is no fun. (Michael Binary)

Book of Knights, The
(male AP) 1998 Yves Meynard. Adelrune runs away from home to seek out a sage named Riander and pays 6 years of his life for knightly training. Though the boy physically ages 6 years overnight, he still retains the mind of a youth.

Book of Mordred, The
(old age disguise) Vivian Vande Velde, 2005.
"Nimue...had made herself look fifty years older than she really was, and watching Mordred - who may or may not have been acting foolishly by tending to the oxen - she decided to go further. If being an old woman was a good defense, how much better a mad old woman?
She began to rock back and forth in the wagon, and picked at wisps of her white hair, all the while mumbling at herself..."
p138: "His distant manner kept making Nimue forget that he was, in fact, the same age as she - twenty-two."
p146: "She returned herself to her normal age and appearance. She guessed the guards were expecting a good looking friend.
Romola blinked at her sudden transformation, but said nothing."
p153: "She said, "Halbert transformed himself again - this time before he started to age. Now Halbert looks like Wystan, Wystan has poor dead Evan's body, ..."
p320: "The aged Morgana was gone, and it was Mordred she watched now."

Boy I Loved Before, The
(flashback to high school) Jenny Colgan. At her best friend's wedding, Flora reflects on her life and wishes she could be 16 again. When Flora wakes up the next morning she discovers her wish has come true. Can she change her life?

Brave New World
(unseen accelerated growth) There was an attempt to create lower-caste proletarian workers who efficiently skip all those useless developmental years, but the 6-year-old men and women were too mentally under-developed, and the program failed.

Breaking Dawn
(accelerated growth) Twilight series, Stephenie Meyer, 2008. Renesmee "Nessie" Carlie Cullen is the half-vampire, half-human daughter of Edward Cullen and Bella Swan. Renesmee grows at a fast rate, being able to speak 7 days after her birth, and by the end of Breaking Dawn she is able to read, run, hunt, and perform other tasks at advanced levels for her young age. Renesmee's curly hair already comes down to her waist. She will reach physical maturity in 7 years, when her physical appearance will be around 17, and will then stop aging.
205: "You shot right up. I could watch you getting taller by the minute. He's like that, too. Growing so fast."
460: "Carlisle came down the stairs with his hands full of odd things - a measuring tape, a scale. ... You do this every day? ... Four times a day," Carlisle corrected absently ... I thought I saw Renesmee sigh ... Four times? Every day? Why? ... She's still growing quickly," Edward murmured to me..."
461: "She looked well on her way to being a toddler just days after her birth. If this rate of growth held..."
592: "Renesmee grows at an unprecedented rate. By the time the month is past, she'll have gained another half year of development."
702: "many witnesses stand ready to give evidence that they have seen this miraculous child grow and mature in just the short time they've known her."

Breast development: a conceptualization of its social and psychological effects
- (BE) "a project based upon an independent investigation" Janice E. Robison Gianino, 1986.

Breasts: The Women's Perspective on an American Obsession
(BE coming of age, self growth dream) Carolyn Latteier.
"I have been looking at my breasts for a long time. I started watching as I was approaching puberty, and there was really nothing to see. While other girls were bursting out all over, my chest remained stubbornly quiescent. My breasts were still no more than little bumps when I reached eight grade, and it had become absolutely unbearable not to be wearing a brassiere in the gym class locker room."
"I remember dreaming one night that I stood looking in my mother's bedroom mirror, and, to my deep satisfaction, my breasts grew large, the way flowers bloom in a time-lapse film."
"[in real life] I watched my breasts grow and grow, and finally start to look like I had always thought they were supposed to. Then one morning I woke up and saw blue-lined stretch marks all over them."
"During my thirties and forties, my breasts went through monthly cycles, reaching a glamorous, firm fullness when my estrogen levels were cresting."

Broken Flower
- (accelerated growth) V.C. Andrews.
p137: "You noticed your breasts developing," she prompted. "You saw hair appear. What did you do about it?" "Nothing." "Did you tell your mother right away or..."
p431: ...his little girl had crossed that mysterious boundary into womanhood. At the age of eleven, my body had charged out of the gate like some impatient Olympic runner before the sound of the starting pistol. I had lurched forward and at times felt as if I was being rushed into my adolescence by a traitorous inner self that on its own, seemingly overnight, had decided to begin forming my breasts, curving my buttocks, narrowing my waist, ... and there I was at the time, finishing the fifth grade.
p433: ...making me look like some pervert just because I was studying your accelerated development and she caught me measuring your budding breasts ...
- (coming of age growth) Jordan March tries to be a good little girl and follow her grandmother's strict rules. One day, without warning, Jordan's body begins to change - and everyone notices her in a way that seems dark, dangerous, and threatening. Jordan is ashamed and afraid that her soft curves are unwelcome indeed. Grandmother Emma sets out to make Jordan pay for her family's past mistakes.

Bronze Horseman, The
(UC scene, coming of age) A Novel By Paullina Simons
"...with thin shoulder straps and no sleeves. It was fitted through the waist and then billowed out in a flowing skirt to just above her knees, and if Tatiana whirled around fast enough, the skirt billowed up in a parachute.
There was only one problem with this dress in June 1941: it was too small for Tatiana. The crisscross satin straps at the back of the dress that Tatiana could once tie completely closed had to be constantly loosened.
It vexed Tatiana that the body she was increasingly uneasy with could outgrow her favorite dress. It wasn't as if her body were blossoming to look like Dasha's, full of hips and breasts and thighs and arms. No, not all. Tatiana's hips, though round, remained small, and her arms and legs remained slender, but the breasts got larger, and there was the problem. Had the breasts remained the same size, Tatiana wouldn't have had to leave the straps loose, exposing her bare spine under the crisscrosses from her shoulder blades to the small of her back for all the world to see.
Tatiana liked the notion of the dress, the feeling of the cotton against her skin and the stitched roses under her fingers, but she did not like the feeling of her exploding body trapped inside the lung-squeezing material.
What she enjoyed was the memory of her skinny-as-a-stick fourteen-year-old-self putting on that dress for the first time and going for a Sunday walk on Nevsky. It was for that feeling that she had put on the dress again this day...

Brusski: a story of peasant life in Soviet Russia
(UC scene) Fedor Ivanovich Panferov, 1930. "Somehow she had grown taller and straighter, had bloomed like a ripe plum, and, as she folded her arms, her breasts rounded the thin muslin of her dress..."

Building Blocks
(male flashback) Cynthia Voigt, 1984. Brann is sick of hearing his parents argue all the time. After he fell asleep in the middle of a fortress of building blocks, he awoke on a wooden floor in 1939. His father was 10 years old, 2 years younger than himself. In this single mystifying day of adventure, Brann discovers that there is more to his dad -- and fate -- than he thought.

Castaways of the Flying Dutchman
(male age stasis) Brian Jacques, 2001. Ben is stuck at age 14: just old enough to fall in love, but still young enough that if he stays in one place too long, it will become obvious very quickly that he's not aging. The angel tells him and his dog to walk the earth forever, wise and forever young, to give kindness and guidance wherever they go.

Castle of Bone, A
(possible AP RN scene(s), AR theme, male AR) Penelope Farmer, 1972. A grave, transformative tale of maturation. The castle of bone is a metaphor for one's body.
Anything placed in Hugh's magic cupboard is returned to an earlier stage of existence. A pigskin wallet turns into a large white pig. Hugh, his sister Jean, and their next-door neighbors Penn and Anna give chase to it. Dried raisins become grapes. ...And then, by accident when they are roughhousing, Penn falls backward into the cupboard--and comes out as a very small boy! Later he becomes a wizened infant. The children's panic mounts, finally becoming terror, as they strive to return Penn to his rightful self. Hugh dreams of a strange castle. At last they go into the cupboard.
(Entropic)

Celydonn trilogy
- (FF) Teresa Edgerton. Second trilogy Gwenlliant is initially 12 years old (Castle of the Silver Wheel) and looks it, but thanks to Time Travel is at least a year older than her official age by the time she is technically 15 (The Moon and the Thorn), with greater physical and mental strength than would be expected.

Centre of Magic, The
(AR/AP) Pamela Freeman novel. (R. M. Fisher "Ravenna", Jeffr_2bya)

Chance Fortune and the Outlaws
(male growth CB) Shane Berryhill, 2006. Boy has condition causing him to temporarily grow larger when angered.
"When he spoke again it was an outright roar. "YOU WON'T LIKE ME WHEN I'M MAD!"
They watched in horror as the little boy's face turned crimson. His head and jaw expanded, his skin bubbling and stretching. His arms and shoulders swelled into mountains beneath his crimson skin. The buttons popped from the boy's shirt as his increasing bulk ripped it to shreds.
In seconds the boy had transformed into a twelve-foot-tall bull-roaring monstrosity. The other students screamed in terror as they trampled over one another in an attempt to flee the scene.
The thing moved with surprising speed, swatting..."

Chaos Engine series
(male old age) Steven A. Roman, Marvel Universe. In Avengers #289, 3/1988, Cosmic Cube hatched into adult form Kubik.
Doctor Doom demanded his Cube change reality, but it overlaid universes instead, aging Doom and the Cube at an accelerated rate. X-Men attempted to stop Doom and Red Skull.

Charlie Bone and the Invisible Boy
(ARed age disguise, RN AA OA, male FFed UC scene) Jenny Nimmo, 2004, "Children of the Red King" children's fantasy series.
Belle Donner is the child-like form of Yolanda Yewbeam, a powerful shape shifter who appeared at Bloor's Academy, and integrated herself with the evil characters. Belle is staying with Charlie's great aunts, but he soon discovers she isn't really 12, Belle's an age shifter. Her clothes change to ancient gray rags.
Mr. Bolvoda's invisible brother has been living in the attic for a long time. When the magic snake squeezes him to normal, it is revealed he outgrew his clothes long ago.
p28: "... "There's a very pretty girl trying to get your attention." Charlie turned to see Belle looking up at him ..."
p42: "... "Sorry said the voice. "It used to have a bit of sock and shoe on it, but the shoe got too small, and the sock wore out. ..."
p96: "... He was walking across the landing above the entrance halt when the new girl, Belle, appeared.
p97: "... her pretty features stretched and sagged, and she was growing taller and taller. ... an ancient woman with yellow skin that hung in folds beneath her chin and a huge crag of a nose."
p101: "... Belle wasn't a girl at all but an old, old woman. She had changed her shape, but she had also done ..."
p203: "... Yolanda's here. ... only she isn't old. She looks my age. ..."
p315: "... His hair was two shades blacker than it had ever been, and he looked at least three inches taller. ..."
p377: "... at least two sizes too small for its owner: the person whose bony wrists extended well beyond ... "Oh, the poor boy, look at his pants," said Mrs. Onimous, regarding the tattered bits of cloth that ..."

Chelsea Whistle, The
(UC, coming of age) Michelle Tea. "There were my hips, I felt them for the first time ... here was my body, finally. I could see my little belly in the mirror, the tiny triangles of new tits jabbing at the inside of my body suit. Weren't boobs supposed to be round? Mine were poky, fleshy pyramids. I flushed at the sight of them ... look at that one girl, Sharon, with tits as round and hard as apples. You could see the stitching of her bra beneath her body suit, Sharon was growing too fast for her clothes to keep up, one of those girls. Puberty is hardest on poor girls. The lag time between your tits showing up and your mom rustling up the funds to accommodate them. You just hung around bursting out of your outfits. I could see the strain on the girls around me."

Children of the Lamp trilogy
(male OA) P. B. Kerr, 2006.
Book 3: "The Cobra King of Kathmandu". John and Philippa Gaunt are celebrating their first Djinn birthday. They can leave clones behind to fool their parents. Their mother casts a Methuselah binding spell on their father, causing him to grow 20 years older every day the twins are not home. This will ensure that the twins are forced to stay, so he will return to his real age.
Book 4: "The Day of the Djinn Warriors" 2009. (2BYA)

Chocolate Rules and the Starship Meatloaf
(unknown CB scene, no further info could be extracted) Jerry Piasecki, 1997.
"And all their clothes were bursting at the seams. Louie bent over to tie his shoe. The sound of splitting fabric filled the Meatloaf."
The Starship crew and their 6th-grade visitors travel to the year 6789. The Buttermans discover that people in the future have never tasted chocolate before. Soon everyone on Earth is hooked, and will do anything the Buttermans say to get more.

Choose Your Own Adventure
- (TF CB) fan parody cover.

Choose Your Own Adventure
(AP/AR?) #6 "House of Danger" R. A. Montgomery. What would you do if a ghost from the Civil War gave you the chance to change your age? Would you change into a baby or an old person? What about living someone else's life?

Choose Your Own Adventure
(AR, old age) Books:
- Inside UFO 54-40 Edward Packard, Paul Granger. 02/82, ISBN: 0-553-20197-2, 0-553-23175-8. 30 endings. In the room of the ship in which you were trapped, the prisoners got younger every day - until they got TOO young. You were surprised by talking babies when you entered the room. You yourself were becoming one. This ending isn't illustrated.
- House of Danger R. A. Montgomery, Ralph Reese. September, 1982, ISBN: 0-553-22541-3, 20 endings. You are an amateur detective and psychic investigator. You are confronted with a specter that forces you to choose between becoming older and becoming younger. If you choose to become younger, you go too far and become a baby again, and you rapidly become bored with the experience. If you choose to be older, you're too old - quite elderly, in a wheelchair, living is an effort - and your heart stops beating... This is illustrated.
- "Curse of the screaming knight" or something. One of the multi-endings has all the characters de-aging into babies with the hero saving them, but getting stuck as a baby himself. For old age fans there is some serious old age concerning the clocks.

Chronicles of Mavin Manyshaped, The
(TF, coming of age FF) 1985. Part of Sheri S. Tepper 9 novel series The True Game. "Song of Mavin Manyshaped": Mavin is a girl shapeshifter about to come of breedable age in Danderbat Keep. "Flight of Mavin Manyshaped" traces a much older Mavin as she searches for her sister, another shifter who escaped. "The Search for Mavin Manyshaped" places us 20 years later as Mavin returns to find the wizard she parted from so long ago.

Circus in Winter, The
(minor AR) Cathy Day, 2004. Jennie Dixianna could have been as young as 18 or as old as 40, and depending on the quality of light, she looked anywhere in between. She never revealed her age, and some of the circus people believed she cast spells and swallowed bitter pills to change her age at will.

Clique series
- (BE) Alicia develops way more rapidly than anyone expected. She's supprised and embarassed when she gets teased for her overinflated look by the other girls. Guys however are more impressed.

Codex Alera series
- (adult age delay) Jim Butcher. Watercrafters have an innate healing ability, which causes them to retain their youthful appearances even as they age. Gaius Sextus is over 80, but looks around 40. A cop mistook 50-year-old Isana for a streetwalker, until she lifted her hood so he could see her graying hair.

Cold snap as yearning
- (TF CB dream sequence) Robert Vivian, 2001.
p51
I saw the horse-woman in the middle of the day in the middle of downtown Omaha, and it scared me.
The horse-woman was my secret, an inviolate gift given only once. I would not see her again.
...it was not given to me to know what it meant...
Horse-woman had abandoned her shawl outside of the city limits, and one by one, her limbs took on the qualities of a horse, as her black belly burst the seams of her dress, which blew away to a thicket or the slanted woefulness of a wire fence.
...she wasn't really a woman at all.
...horses could have shawls and women could be horses.

Colors Insulting to Nature: A Novel
(BE'd coming of age scene) Cintra Wilson. Robby Benson romance, Ice Castles movie scene. Alexis "Lexie" Winston: Lynn-Holly Johnson.
"Overnight, Lexie trades her blonde pigtails for a Sophisticated Hairstyle (Hollywood symbol of losing innocence and/or Coming-of-Age) and marvels at her own budding breasts in the mirror, touching her new chest tenderly (with blouse still on, natch, but this is very serious Girl-Becoming-Woman fodder, although no teen girl has ever done that, ever; it has only ever happened in the porn-infected male screenwriter mind)."
"Frustrated by the shallowness of the big-league skating world,..."

Come On, Ossie!
(male AP transformation) 1985 Hunter Davies, illustrator: Malou Bonicos. Bodley Head Children's Books. A boys' version of the Flossie Teacake books. Young Oswald turns into an 18-year-old when he borrows his grandfather's medal. There are several sequels.
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Ossie Goes Supersonic
(male AP transformation) 1986 Hunter Davies, Malou Bonicos.
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Ossie the Millionaire
(male AP transformation) 1987 Hunter Davies, Malou Bonicos.
(TvTRopes.com)

Confessions of a Memory Eater
(mental flashbacks) Pagan Kennedy novel, 2006. New drug allows user to relive any memory at any age.

Confessions of Georgia Nicolson, the
- (coming of age, FF) Louise Rennison, UK.
The exploits of a growing teenage girl and her friends, as told through her journal .
- The titles are:
Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging (1999)
It's OK, I'm Wearing Really Big Knickers (UK title) / On the Bright Side, I'm Now the Girlfriend of a Sex God (US title) (2001)
Knocked Out by my Nunga-Nungas (2002)
Dancing in my Nuddy-Pants (2003)
And That's When It Fell Off in My Hand (UK title) / Away Laughing on a Fast Camel (US title) (2004)
Then He Ate My Boy Entrancers (2005)
Startled by His Furry Shorts (2006)
Luuurve is a Many Trousered Thing (2007)
Fabbity-Fab Journal (2007)
Let The Snog Fest Begin (2007)
Georgia's Book of Wisdomosity (2008)
Stop in the Name of Pants! (2008)
Are These My Basoomas I See Before Me? (2009)
Georgia Nicolson's Little Pink Book (2009)
Luuurve and Other Ramblings (2009)
Withering Tights (2010)

Confessions of Max Tivoli, The
(male reverse lifespan AR) Andrew Sean Greer, 2004. Early 20th century tale.

Conjure Wife
(mind transfer AR, mind transfer old age) Fritz Leiber. Old woman forcibly trades bodies with beautiful young wife & tries to get husband to kill her old body.

Conjurer Princess, The
(AP, old age) Vivian Vande Velde. 16-year-old Lylene's sister Beryl is kidnapped. Lylene sets out to rescue her sister. Wizard bestows her with magic powers she needs. The magic is limited to making temporary copies of real objects -- and in gaining it, she ages 60 years. The budding romance between Lylene and Weiland is nicely handled (although some might feel a man in his late 20's is a bit old for a girl of 16). Unable to regain her true age except by wishing her extra years onto others, Lylene does so with few pangs of conscience -- until, near the end of the book, Vande Velde somewhat hastily has her acknowledge the moral burden of this action.

Constellation of Sylvie, The
(AR) Roderick Townley novel, 04/06. Sequel to "The Great Good Thing" and "Into the Labyrinth". The book is stowed away on a space shuttle embarking on a 4-year mission to Jupiter. Princess Sylvie and the other characters must act out the book's plot while floating weightlessly through the pages. Ice from one of Jupiter's moons provides oxygen to sustain the shuttle crew, but it also contains a compound that reverses the aging process, regressing the crew toward babyhood. Birth, death, and infinity become fatally intertwined. Soon the astronauts are only children, and their own lives, and the fate of the characters in the book, lie in the hands of Sylvie, who must reach into their dreams to help them make it back to Earth alive.

Coriolanus, The Chariot!
(AR,AP,TG) 1978, Alan Yates (p 165) The people drink a fluid that allows them to change their shape. (Brat)

Cravings
(adult APed ARed) Laurell K. Hamilton anthology. Eileen Wilks "Originally Human" story. Succubus heroine Molly Brown (whose age varies between 19 and 300, with stops at 50 and 35) discovers a naked man in the woods and decides to help him recover his memory. Guess what supernatural species the hero is? There weren't quite enough glimpses into the heroine character. "So I'm a succubus, and I can change my physical age."

Cross on the Drum, The
(height increase) Hugh Barnett Cave, 1959, vodun themed. "She grew taller. It was no illusion; it had nothing to do with the drumming or the effect on his senses of Catus' incredible dancing; the girl grew taller. ..."

Crown of Stars
(accelerated growth) Kate Elliott epic fantasy novels. When Liath entered a place where time was altered, Daimone daughter Blessing's growth rate accelerated. Her growth disorder subsided since Jerna left, to a 3:1 ratio by the end of CoF. By the time she hits 4, she should appear to be around 12-15. Blessing may need to be past puberty during the Great Return.

Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Apt. 3W, The
(male AR) 2002 Gabriel Brownstein
Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The
(male AR) F Scott Fitzgerald, 1922. Inspired by Samuel Butler's note-books and Mark Twain story.
- Movie in pre-production. Without warning a 50 year old man begins to age backwards, progressively growing younger. As he begins to regain his youth, the man starts to fall in love with a 30 year old woman...but how can they have a future together if he continues to grow younger and she older with every year that passes by?

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