Tail of Emily Windsnap, The
(TF) 2003. A fishy fantasy about a girl who turns into a mermaid. Emily lives on a boat, but her mother has always been oddly anxious to keep her out of the water, and it is only when she has her first school swimming lesson that she discovers it is her natural element. As soon as she gets into the sea, she grows a tail! cover

Taking Flight: A Legend of Ethshar
(age stasis) Lawrence Watt-Evans.
A young man runs across a young woman with wings who doesn't want to grow up, and has the magic to make it happen. Irith can change her form. He faces the problem of falling in love with the perpetual child as he himself grows up. Add to this situation an old man, magicly smitten with the adolescent angel.

Tangle Box, The
- (accelerated development) Terry Brooks.
Mistaya ages 10 years in only 2. Adults are a necessary evil in her young life, so the sooner she's fully grown, the better.

text fragments
- (UC scenes, some FF) from various books - UC text
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The World More Or Less
(UC scene dream sequence APed) Jean Rouaud.
"She is still wearing her navy blue skirt and pale blue blouse.
Soon ... I shall take advantage of it to swell her budding breasts a little but without changing her blouse, and this will make a bit of a bulge between the third and fourth buttons. She was losing the childlike roundness of her face and throat. Her cheekbones seemed higher, her chin and nose more tapered."

Theodore All Grown Up
(male) Ellen Stoll Walsh. One magical morning Theodore wakes up to discover that he has been transformed from a young boy into a grown-up man. At first Theodore is happy about being an adult but as the day progresses, he begins to have second thoughts. He doesn't feel so good after he gives away all his toys. Will Theodore be able to become a little boy again? male cover

Thief Lord, The
(male AP, AR) Cornelia Funke. Happy to report it has 3 AR and 1 male AP. Old man and woman to children, one adult man into 5-year-old, and one boy into an adult. (2bya)

Thirteenth House, The
(TF, slight ARed) Sharon Shinn. Kirra Danalustrous was born a mystic "shiftling" - a person with the ability to transform into virtually any other human or animal form. She takes the place of her younger sister Casserah who is unwilling to embark on an obligatory social tour. Kirra spends much of the book in the form of her sister, but also changes into animal forms (like dogs, cats and birds). She also occasionally impersonates men and women. Kirra's servant Donnal spends much of the book as a wolf or in bird form, but he also poses as a maid and mimics Kirra. Kirra has the ability not only to transform herself, but transform other people who aren't shiftlings... She uses this power to turn two people into dogs, one of whom needs to be cured of a disease as an animal. (metamorphose.org)

This Body
(body swap AR) Laurel Doud. Katharine, a neurotic middle-aged mother of two, dies in her sleep and wakes a year later in the body of a 22-year-old drug addict.

This Side of Land: an Island Epic
(excellent AP FF scene) Elizabeth Hollister Frost, 1942. Access highly restricted. Only a few text fragments could be extracted:
p 204
"...they stood by beginning to stretch and twist and sigh, growing upward and outward; the lower, thicker branches dropping off; the trunks extending and thickening; the thorns starting out of the trunk sides; lichens creeping up, poison oak swinging down; the high branchy boughs spreading and soughing; the gray moss..."
"...little-girl feet a-running the beautiful field, and her Now curls a-swing on her neck, and her hand touching Bertran's in the thorn lot: and she felt her thin body grow taller, bit by bit, and her legs lengthen as the thorn trees lengthened, and her little breasts round slow, and her arms soften..."

Thread that Binds the Bones, The
(AR, TG) 1993 Hoffman, Nina. One of a family of magicians so angers another that she changes him into a young girl.

Thundershine: Tales of Metakids
(minor CB) David Skinner, 1999 anthology of 4 stories. Tales about junior high kids with amazing powers. Louise can grow and shrink to any size. Nina can transform into all other girls and has almost unlimited powers.

Tiger, Tiger Puffin
(TF, kinda AR) Burgess, Melvin. Mr Yung, the head of a Chinese gang, is after the Malham Tigers. He is particularly anxious to procure a young tigress called Lila, who is a rare 'Spirit Tiger'. When the poaching goes horribly wrong, there is a massacre of tigers and men, but, thanks to Lila, some of the tigers escape. With her supernatural powers, which include shape-changing into a young girl, Lila pursues everyone involved in the massacre.

Time Shifter, The
(male flashed forward to old age) John Peel. Based on Showtime's "The Outer Limits". 12-year-old Brandon gets the scare of his life when he looks into a mirror and sees a grizzled old man staring back at him. The old man steps out of the mirror, and introduces himself as Brandon Mooney age 92! He doesn't want to believe that this is how he will turn out - old, and gray.

Time Travel
(flash forward) Jenny Randles. cover

Time Traveler's Wife, The
(male AR) 2003

Time, Forward!
(UC, coming of age) Valentine Kataev, Charles Malamuth, 1932. "Shura grew angry. She was always fighting with herself. She was growing up too fast. Her skirt had become exceedingly tight and short. The blue football sweater, washed until it was almost white, was tucked under her skirt and had split under the arms. Her arms were crawling out of the tight sleeves. The sleeves had to be rolled up. She was scarcely seventeen, but she appeared to be no less than twenty. And still she kept on growing. She was in despair. She did not know what to do with her hands, which were too large, with her legs, which were too long, with her blue eyes, which were too beautiful, with her voice, which was too pleasant. She was embarrassed by her high breasts, her thin waist, her white throat."

Time/Life Books
(FF face) "Growth" 1

Tin Drum, The
(male age stasis) Günter Grass. Oskar deliberately stunts his growth at age 3 by hurling himself down the stairs, so that he can avoid being part of the horrific adult world. He shields himself further from adult horrors by drowning them out with his titular drum. In the end, a blow to the head ages him instantly.

Tithe : A Modern Faerie Tale
(TF) Holly Black novel. 16-year-old Kaye Fierch is not human, but she doesn't know it. Sure, she knows she's interacted with faeries since she was little--but she never imagined she was one of them, her blond Asian human appearance only a magically crafted cover-up for her true, green-skinned pixie self. Kaye hooks up with childhood friend Janet and her gay brother, Corny Stone. The beautiful, mysterious knight Roiben, torn between worlds himself, falls in love with Kaye--the brave, clever changeling--against his better judgment.

Tom Goes to Kindergarten
(furry UC) Margaret Wild, 2000.
Mr. and Mrs. Panda's grown-up lives now include time for play, thanks to imaginative Tom and the ideas he brings home from school. Kindergarteners will squeal at the sight of parents bursting out of child-size dress-up clothes.

Too Big for Me!
(UC) Feana Tu'akoi, Helena Hughes, 2001. Photographic sequential for emergent readers. What sounds like a good solution doesn't work when a big sister finds she's grown out of her clothes. Repetition of phrases: 'My ... is/are too small.", "Kate can have it/them, said Mum". Change of text pattern on final page. UC

Tortoise by Candlelight
(UC scene) Nina Bawden, 1963.
Snipet view "She was growing out of her clothes but only length-wise. Her pyjama jacket barely covered her rib cage and the trousers were two-thirds up her smooth,..."

Tracey McBean
(height increase) cover

Tramp, The
(adult rejuvenation) L. Ron Hubbard, 1937. Down-on-his-luck tramp Doughface Jack has the two halves of his brain stitched together, and his cranium sealed with a silver bowl. He acquires phenomenal mental powers: he can instantaneously heal or kill, or make the old young.

Turnabout
- (AR) Mostly about journey of 2 women as they get younger. Ends with them as teens.
- (reverse aging AR) Margaret Peterson Haddix, c.2000.
2 girls underwent an experimental treatment as old women which caused them to age backwards. As shrinking teens in the year 2085, they must prepare for a grim future. "I'll stop having to shave under my arms. Your hips will, uh, you know. Smooth out... My breasts will shrink. My pubic hair will disappear."

Turtle Clan Journey
(male CB, male coming of age) Lynda Durrant, 1999.
"At the end of the Strawberry moon, Bamaineo's toes burst through his moccasins. It was the only pair he had.
His feet were growing so fast that his toes had pushed against the insides, stretching the already thin leather to the breaking point. The thinning leather was further worn down on the outside...
"Do your feet hurt?" Glickihigan whispered when Bamaineo wriggled his bare toes."

Twinship
(excellent AP CB, accelerated growth, girl-to-woman age progression process micro-glimpse)
"A Novel by the Author of Ex Utero", Laurie Foos, 1999. P53.
- A tale about Maxi, Minnie, and a clone called Middle. Something goes horribly wrong: instead of delivering a healthy newborn, Maxi Dublin gives birth to herself... as a clone. In the medical world, Maxi becomes a cause celebre. Only a tiny fraction of the text could be extracted:
"...bangs hanging low over her eyes.
"Good god!" he yelled, as his hands grabbed handfuls of his gelled hair. "She's grown!
... a torn receiving blanket, her diaper ripped at the seams, exposing a juicy thigh.
...were open, and she gurgled a bit in her throat, the red tufts of hair now a full crown. In a matter of minutes she'd grown to the size of a six-month-old. For a moment...

Two Dreams
- (UC scene) Shirley Lim.
"Don't you girls have enough to wear? Why must you take clothes from each other?"
"Girls grow so fast, Peng. My goodness, Kim Yee's dresses are so short she doesn't look decent in them."
"Chinese New Year was only 3 months ago."
"But I've grown an inch since then!"
"And I've grown 3 inches in 1 year!" Kim Bee said.
"Your daughters are becoming women," Kim Li said, kicking her long legs rhythmically through the meal. She wore her blue school shorts which fitted tightly above the thighs and stretched across the bottom, flattening the weight which ballooned curiously around her tall skinny frame.
Her legs, like her chest, were skinny, almost fleshless. They were long and shapeless; the knees bumped out like rock-outcroppings, and the ankles rose to meet the backs of her knees with hardly a suggestion of calf. In the tight shorts she didn't appear feminine or provocative, merely unbalanced, as if the fat around the hips and bottom were merely a growth , a goiter draped on the lean trunk.
"How dare you come to the table like a half-naked slut!"
"What I wear is what you give me."
... "Maybe tomorrow we can go over the cost of some new clothes. The girls can shop for some cheap..."

Ultimate Book of Spells
(ubosbiggirls, freelycat)

Uncle Moses
(UC scene) Sholem Asch.
"...was fourteen and a half years of age,..
Moreover, Masha was no longer a child. She straightened her long black braids, the sole adornment of her person, and one which ill became her short, outgrown dress. Her long red hands stuck far out of her short sleeves. She kept pulling her sleeves down over her wrists, but when one sleeve yielded the other would slide upwards, thus engaging her in a constant struggle.
The wind played havoc with Masha's braids and raised her short skirt high, revealing altogether too much of her shapely legs. Masha fought with the wind, now thrusting down her skirt to cover her legs, now pulling down her sleeves to warm her hands.

Unusual Death of Julie Christie and Other Stories, The
(UC scene) Andrew Michael Hurley, 2008.
"...the girl was the same age as me, coming up for sixteen. Her hair was wild and she was heavily built. Her clothes seemed too small for her, too childish, and the front of the flowery blouse she always seemed to have on was a line of oval gaps that showed her flesh and underwear."

Ursula on Safari
(TF) Sheila Lavelle. Ursula is a little girl who can change into a bear. In this story Ursula goes on a school trip to a safari park.

Usborne Facts of Life Growing Up
- (coming of age, FF) cover

Valley Where Time Stood Still, The
- (AR) 1974 Lin Carter. Edgar Rice Burroughs, Mars setting. An expedition goes to a valley where the fountain of youth exists. Various members AR to different ages. The heroine is sexually abused by brother. After exposure to the fountain she becomes a young virgin. (Time)
- (AR, male ARs, possible partial RN)
3 AR events are described in the book in some detail: 2 male and 1 female. One male (a corrupt priest) is returned to infancy, while a bandit who sexually attacks a young girl is regressed past birth to nothingness. The heroine who was sexually abused by her brother is regressed into a childish innocent after being touched by the waters. She runs off naked to play with the children of the valley, no longer feeling any guilt about sex or nudity. She returns later because of the hero's love, but has been changed into a young virgin girl by then. (Time)

Vamped : A Novel
(12 year flash forward, male age stasis) David Sosnowski, 2004. Undead Martin Kowalski is an 80-year-old man stuck in a 20-year-old body. A 3-foot blond obstacle is thrown in his path: 6-year-old human girl, Isuzu Trooper Cassidy. At first he thinks "midnight snack," but before the sun comes up, Isuzu is the one snacking on his prized cereal collection as she charms him into staying undead long enough to raise her in a world rife with danger and almost entirely populated by vampires yearning for the taste of real human blood. Unwilling to vamp her (child vampires, aka "screamers," tend to be disturbed individuals), Martin opts instead to provide a good home for the child until she attains adulthood. I'm not sure how much logic I can suspend to really let slide the fact that a child can be cooped up for nearly 12 years straight with only limited freaky television and a couple hours with her guardian for company and not end up utterly insane.

Vampire Chronicles, The
(age stasis) Anne Rice. Claudia remains a child.

Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox, The
- (UC scene) Maggie O'Farrell. Esme's blazer has become too small:
"Esme hooked both arms into it, and yanked it over her back. The effect was instantaneous. She could barely move, barely breathe. The felt of the blazer was stretched over her shoulders, pinioning her arms to her sides, nipping her armpits. The sleeves were too short, showing the bones of her wrists. ... It wouldn't close over her chest. A pair of younger girls stared at her as they passed."

Varieties of Psychedelic Experience, The
(AR, AP, shrinking, growth, body elongation dream sequences) 1966. "Occasionally, body shrinkage is encountered as an aspect of regression to an infantile or even fetal state. With fetalization, there then may occur an experience of rebirth."

Veronica
(old age, age stasis, AR) Nicholas Christopher. Leo meets Veronica, the beautiful, enigmatic daughter of an illusionist.
p242: With each passing second, Viola's youthful face grew paler. Her forehead narrowed. Wrinkles appeared: single, then multiple, grooves along her brow, crow's feet around her eyes, and spidery lines that fanned around her cheeks. As if we were watching decades of film footage condensed and sped up, Veronica and I saw her twin age fifty years in fifteen seconds.
And there was Alta lying before us, white-haired, with sunken cheeks, incongruously dressed in the blue and black polka-dot dress that swam on her bony frame. Her eyes - the opposite of Veronica's, the right one green, the left blue - were nearly washed of their color.
She parted her lips, and for the first and only time spoke, after ten mute years, in a small, high voice.
A moment later, I saw Viola's image, stark naked, rise up out of Alta's body and disappear into the eastern sky, trailing a line of gold vapor.
...As Veronica laid Alta's head down on the tiles, her body had shrunk even further, until she was no larger than a child.
"...the night of May 4th ten years ago and this moment - merged. She came around from two different directions and met herself in time."
"And as a result of her shuttling across what we consider zones of time, she has remained the same age for the last ten years. She may continue to do so for some time. Or the aging process may at any time accelerate - or reverse itself. What is clear is that her physiological chronology has been altered. As for Albin White, he may well come back a Methuselah, or an infant."
"Do you mean that the travel will affect me as it's affected her?" I said.

Very Little Girl, The
(FF growth) Phyllis Krasilovsky, Karen Gundersheimer, 1992. A very little girl gradually grows bigger--big enough to be a big sister to her new baby brother. Gundersheimer's full-color pictures replace the red-and-blue 1962 originals. The theme of a toddler's physical growth and mastery of simple tasks continues. The 1992 Very Little Girl is more robust and active than her 1953 counterpart. The earlier titles employed more imaginative typography to underscore contrasts in size. Both stories end with the child assuming the new role of older sibling.

Vice Versa
- (male) F. Anstey, 1882. A father and son are swapped. This may have inspired Mary Rodger's 1972 novel.

Virtually Perfect
(male) Dan Gutman, 1999, ISBN: 0786813164. Yip pulls Victor out of his computer. Victor morphed himself into a grown man and robbed a bank. Then he morphed himself into himself again and the police can't catch him. Yip finds out that Victor is going to Washington on the same day the president is making a speech. And Victor has the power to kidnap the president and take over!

Voice from the Ashes - A Tribute to Elaine, A
(growth, UC, dream sequence) Novel by Michael M. Michalak. "Her jeans refused to pull up over her thighs and her T-shirt seemed to have shrunk three sizes. The jeans barely reached midway down her calves and the shirt stopped two inches above her navel. How could she have grown six inches overnight [from 5' 2'' to 5' 8''] it just wasn't possible, half a foot taller for God's sake. Tess strode around the flat for a good twenty minutes, acquainting herself with the feel of having much longer legs. "I feel like a kid who got exactly what she wanted for Christmas even though she had not really expected to", Tess gloated to herself. To anyone who might have seen the gleeful look on her face she would have resembled that same child."

Vox
(CB) Nicholson Baker. 17 year old girl bursts out of last year's swimsuit.

Wallace Hoskins: The Boy Who Grew Down
(male growth) 2000 Cynthia Zarin, Martin Matje. Wallace, a small boy who always wears a large fireman's hat, suddenly grows taller. But, as the author tells us: "HIS LEGS WERE GETTING LONGER BUT THE REST OF HIM WAS STAYING THE SAME SIZE." Before the readers' eyes, Wallace looks to be standing on ever-lengthening, stretchable stilts as the hero continues to "grow down."

Water of Life, The
(AP AA) Chapter 4

Well Wished
(body swap) Franny Billingsley 1997. The main character is 11-year-old Nuria Magdelena. A wishing well made many children disappear. A wish backfires, and Nuria and Catty switch bodies.

What I Loved
(flash forward documentary) Siri Hustvedt.
"There was a resolute, pitiless quality to the tapes, a dogged desire to look and look hard."
"The camera's focus remained close and tight as the children grew taller and more articulate."
"The longer I watched, the more mysterious I found the pictures in front of me."
"Above all, the tapes revealed the furious animation of children, the fact that when conscious they rarely stop moving. ...I said to myself that growing up really means slowing down."
"Bill dies before the children reached puberty. A few girls showed signs of breasts coming beneath their T-shirts or the blouses of their school uniforms, but most of the kids hadn't even started to change. I suspect that he had wanted to go on, that he wanted to film more and more children until a moment came when the figures on the screen could no longer be distinguished from adults."
"...I felt exhausted and a little raw from the parade of bodies and faces..."

What's Happening To Me?
- (puberty AP) cover

What's Happening to me?
(puberty FF) 1975. Timelapse growth art sequences. Isn't it great to know that someday you too will grow up to be a frumpy looking woman with a hairy bush! Not to be outdone there's an equally ugly male version with a scary, misshapen penis.

Wheel of Time
(age changes, AR) Robert Jordan novels, RPG. Lanfear's great beauty and strength in Saidar has given her enlarged ambitions. Lanfear's pride is strong enough to support a little age when it must - The Shadow Rising "The Traps of Rhuidean". Lanfear put on a Mask of Mirrors to make herself younger and closer to Rand's age. She resumed the disguise even after he knew what she really looked like in The Shadow Rising "The Stone Stands".

When True Night Falls
(mind transfer AR) C. S. Friedman. The evil protaganist feeds off the fear of others and can assume the form of their worst fear. A man who possesses other creatures' bodies also takes over a little girl.

When You Were Me
(male adult bodyswap) Robert Rodi 2007. Rich but middle aged Harry McGann regrets the missed opportunities of youth he bypassed on his way to success. Attractive 20-something Corey Szaslow is barely getting by after kicking a meth habit. After Harry literally runs into Corey, the two men enter into an agreement to switch bodies and lives with the help of Francesca, a New Age "fusion witch". When the body swap spell actually works, the two men have to deal with the unexpected consequences of being each other. (kreplach, metamorphose.org)

Where Loyalties Lie
(UC scene) Melda Gaskins.
"...this was Carlos' favorite dress.
The dress was tight and outlined all the curves in Heather's young maturing body. The dress was shorter than the dresses she usually wore only because she had grown taller in the past couple of months. The black stockings outlined her long slim muscular legs and she looked older with her hair pulled back.
"I think that dress is too short, too tight and too little."

Where Were You, Robert?
(male AP flash forward, male AR) Hans Magnus Enzensberger, 1998 German novel. Robert, a lonely, only child, quite suddenly begins to drift through time. He has a series of 7 adventures in outlandish, rather unreal places and time zones, always drifting backwards in time. He finally returns to his own kitchen, a couple of years after his journey began. Won't he be a 16-year-old trapped inside a 14-year-old's body? Quote:" 2 years had passed since he first set off on his involuntary travels. He had shot up in height; he looked much older now. That was the crucial mistake. He must paint himself younger, 2 years younger, if he was to get home again exactly as he had been when he disappeared." link

Wild Cat: A Romance of the African Jungle
(coming of age) H M E Clamp, 1935. African jungle setting for this female child brought up by lions.

Winds of the Moon: Tazarian Saga 5
(male AP) Kat Barrett.
"I read about this in the book that Jade sent.
I was marveling at what a wonderful tale it was, but never dreamed that Amaz was one of them. He is! He is really alive and about three cycles old. His breed of magic is called the Gift of the Chancle.
Chancle stands for Changling.
From what the book documented, it is a rare occurrence that happens to children of power who are conceived under extreme conditions of stress. The child is birthed with the power to change their age and growth rate. He can mature at a rate of about one cycle for each sun. This is accomplished though a sleep state that resembles death. I read the line about the body appearing dead, but still retaining its glow of power.
"Amaz is really alive?"
..."Three suns ago, I put our apparently dead infant into that chest. He climbed out of the same chest, three cycles old, while you watched."
..."I screamed, scrambled away from him and then passed out."
"...How old are you?"
"Three. I want to be old enough to go out and play in the white. I was too little before."
"...You have been three suns without food or water. Are you hungry?"
"No. I'm sleepy. The cold woke me up too soon ... Mommy opened chest and the door blew open. Very cold air."

Winni Allfours
(TF) Babette Cole illustrated book. A girl eats only carrots and changes into a horse. What is greatest, she refuses to change back at the end. (Inry)
TF

Witch Switch (Teen Witch #4)
(AP) Barnes, Megan. 1989. Sarah is a witch who's a little jealous of her "perfect" older sister. So when her sister is away she turns herself into her. But she can't control it and soon finds herself in love with her sister's boyfriend and turning into her sister at times she doesn't want to.

Witch Switch, The
- (body swap like ARed) Anne Harler, 1987. Wendy uses her magic powers to change places with her baby sister.
- (AR, AP) multiple books with this title and theme. Sisters swap ages.
Witch Switch
Witch Switch

Wit'ch War
(AP) James Clemens, 2000. Book 3 in "The Banned and the Banished" novel series.
Elena is a 13 year old daydreaming girl. One day in the apple orchard, her hand turns blood red. Destined to ripen into the heritage of lost power, she goes on a journey to defeat the Dark Lord. An og're, 2 shapeshifting brothers, an el'vin and his moon'falcon head on separate quests toward Elena. After suddenly growing up, she can finally consummate her relationship. Only a few fragments could be extracted from Amazon:
119:
"Elena ... She's gone!" he said, his cheeks red with panic. "I found her clothes ... and ... and this!" Joach held forth a handful of bloody bandages. Er'ril took a deep breath, his fist...
129:
Yet her weak pallor was not what trapped Joach's breath. His sister's hair, once cropped short, now lay like a thick pillow of fiery curls under her head. Only the very tips still...
130:
Joach scrambled toward her, too stunned to call to the others. As he neared, he saw that even the nails of her fingers and toes showed the same miraculous growth. Her fingernails had spread into twisted corkscrews across her palms.
Yet her hair and nails were not all that had grown out. Joach tried not to stare at her naked form, but the changes were too shocking to look away.
Elena no longer bore the physique of a young girl whose womanhood beckoned. Her figure had blossomed and stretched into the full curves of a beautiful maiden. It was as if four winters of age had swept over her.
Joach quickly shrugged out of his shirt and wrapped her nakedness in the thick wool. It barely covered her. She must now be a good head taller than him. The motion stirred her.
"J-Joach?" she mumbled. Her eyelids fluttered with fatigue.
134:
He finally spotted Elena seated by the starboard rail. She sat with her knees pulled up, hugging her legs, her face buried in her arms. From her quaking shoulders, he knew she was weeping. He crossed to her with...
136:
...drew Joach's shirt tighter around her physique. "What's happened to me?
"Years were stolen from you and given to the staff. You've aged, Elena. In the moment it took you to create Joach's blood stag I estimate that you've aged at least four...
Her hands fumbled to her face, as if she wanted to feel the truth of his words, but her long nails made it difficult. "My hair ... my nails...
"It's as if you've slept for four winters and just ..."
She seemed wobbly on her legs. Er'ril was not sure how much was due to exhaustion and how much was due to the sudden increase in height. She would have to grow accustomed to her longer limbs and new physique...
Joach eyed his sister's height, then took her arm. He now had to glance up at his sister, where before it had been the opposite...
157:
Elena had trimmed her overgrown hair and nails and donned a set of Er'ril's clothes. With the change in her body, she could no longer pose as a...
161:
...he suddenly felt very conscious of the changes in her body. The fullness in hips and chest, the length and curl of her hair. Even her responses to him were no longer the same...
195:
She remembered his father and the joy they once shared, and her body still continued to transform. The rip of cloth and leather whispered in her ears. She ignored it, unashamed.
317:
Elena had grown a head taller and fuller of figure. She was not the same girl who had combed and curried the mare since she..."

Witches of Karres series
Sorceress of Karres, The
(unseen AP/age shifting possibility) Eric Flint, Dave Freer, 2010. Goth vows she will marry Captain Pausert when she grows up.
"Yet... the witches did have some other avenues open to them. He knew that Threbus must be at least eighty years old by now. Yet he looked to be no more than in his mid-thirties. He also knew from what they had learned on Uldune that Toll too could change her age at will. Pausert cleared his throat and braced himself to ask, "Er. Toll. About age shifts..."
Toll turned back and raised one eyebrow at him, with a quizzical half-amused, half-dangerous expression on her face. "What?" she said, in a way that would have made most men say "oh nothing. Nothing at all." But Pausert was quite brave. Or quite stupid. He was not too sure which of the two he was being right now.
"I was wondering," he said, "about, well, the age shift thing."
Toll smiled. "Oddly enough, Goth's been raising the same subject lately. The answer is 'no,' Captain Pausert. Compared to Nikkeldepain our way of raising children may seem a little strange to you. Karres children are very independent. They have to be. But, captain, they are still children, and need to go through stages of development, just like any other child. There are a number of important formative experiences Goth still has to go through. We did not let our children go with you lightly, Captain Pausert. We have ways of knowing that you are absolutely trustworthy. And anyway, because of the parent-pattern in their heads, we're around in a way, even when we're not."
"I've always done my best for them all," he said. "And if you think that is best for Goth, then we will just have to let it all happen at its own speed."
Toll patted his shoulder. "And it will. Take a step back from it, if you can. Age shift is one of the things we don't teach the young witches. Every single child among them wants to be grown up instantly. What child doesn't? Well, we found that although they can cope very easily with the physical changes in their bodies, it's not the same with their minds. Only time seems to achieve that properly." She cocked her head slightly and smiled. "See, it wouldn't just be an older Goth... my middle daughter is quite an old soul in a young body sometimes. But can you imagine what it would be like if the Leewit could suddenly choose to be grown up, or at least have a grown-up body?"

Witches of Karres, The
(no AR/AP) 1966, 2004.
Captain Pausert liberates 3 powerful preteen witches from slavery on the Imperial planet. Age shift ability is mentioned. The middle witch sister stows away on the ship.
Wizard of Karres, The
"Got to do that to yourself." Goth shook her head regretfully. "It's too bad I can't do an age-shift yet, like Toll and Threbus ... could you do a shape-change that imitates an age-shift? ... I think so. ... the Leewit looked to be a little blonde girl of somewhere between three and four."

With
(coming of age) Donald Harington, 2004. 8-year-old girl survives on a mountain with animal companions and ghost thing. Her efforts to escape prove futile, and she adapts to a hardscrabble backwoods existence. Wary of civilization, Robin chooses to stay on the mountain even when she has the opportunity to leave. Robin discovers her own ingenuity and sexuality as she matures into a self-possessed woman. Love comes in the form of a middle-aged winemaker.

Wither's Legacy
(accelerated growth AP, preteen TF abilities) John Passarella.
p49:
Karen Glazer sat in an uncomfortable hospital chair, staring at her amazing little daughter, too big and yet too small all at the same time.
...one would never know what she'd been through in the two-plus years since her birth.
p50:
"...they'll never find anything Art. What's the point?
Science and medicine haven't caught up...
Of course she was talking about Hannah's rapid aging and physical development...
p113:
I visualize Hannah shining a supernatural mirror back on her future self and the Crone is the image that bounces back to our time.
p118:
While not overly modest about nudity, Abby was embarrassed by the idea of anyone watching her transform from wolf to girl or vice versa. No doubt she remembered his disturbed reaction when he'd witnessed a partial change - hand to paw. With his back turned, he heard the unsettling array of sounds involved in her transformation without any visual context, which was enough to open a dark door in his imagination. After a few moments of squishing, cracking, and muffled crunching, combined with Abby's short moans and grunts of effort, the sheriff squeezed his eyes shut, as if that could somehow lessen the enormity of what was happening a few yards behind him.
"All done," she said. "You can toss me my clothes now."
The sheriff turned a bit, enough to see her squatting with the blanket wrapped around her naked, shivering body, clutched to her throat. He tossed the plastic bag of clothes at her feet and averted his gaze while she dressed herself.
Without the insulating wolf fur, she was vulnerable to cold, just like a normal girl.
p152:
...this reactivated spell somehow affected Hannah and Kyla?
p210:
By the calendar, Hannah was just over two years old, but physically and mentally she seemed ready for second grade.
Other children just wouldn't understand or accept Hannah, for...
p211:
...whom the phrase "growth spurt" was an understatement.
Sometimes it seemed to Karen that she could measure Hannah's height before breakfast and by bedtime detect a noticeable change. Her child's mental development was as impressive. Whatever class she was placed in would soon fall behind her. A teacher in a busy classroom would never give Hannah all the attention she required to stay interested. Yet new clothes and new lessons were minor problems.
Life would be so much simpler if they could just slow Hannah down to normal. Though medical science was unable to stop Hannah's accelerated growth, Karen hoped that Wendy would someday find the secret spell Rebecca Hutchins had placed...
p351:
Alex was accustomed to keeping Wendy's and Windale's secrets. Abby's secret shape-shifting life probably seemed one more aspect of that.
Abby looked like a girl trying on her mother's clothes, pretending to be a grown-up. Would a ten-year-old girl who can turn into a wolf or a hawk have the slightest fascination with high heels and lipstick?
"You won't think I'm a freak, like the kids at my school would, if they knew."
"I've been trying to shift into a bird for like, forever," Abby said, with an appropriate but unconscious flapping of her big sleeved arms to accompany her enthusiasm. "First, I tried forcing the change, making wings and feathers. Ugh, what a mess! Almost turned myself into a pretzel, instead of a bird."

Wither's Rain
(accelerated growth) John Passarella 2003. "To look at her walking confidently and learning to count, one would think the little girl was 3 years old. Karen knew better. Hannah Nicole Glazer was less than 7 months old. Other than her accelerated development, the doctors could find nothing wrong with her, pronounced her perfectly healthy."

Woman in the Wall, The
- (flash forward, coming of age, some UC depictions) Patrice Kindl.
Terrified of second grade, shy little Anna retreats within the walls of her family's enormous house, and builds a world of passageways and hidden rooms. As the years go by, people forget she ever existed... but she can't stop time! A mysterious note is thrust through a crack in the wall.
"And I was growing taller and bigger every day. Twice I got stuck in the bend of the passageway that led to the attic."
"...little pink bumps on my chest and hundreds of big red bumps on my face. I gained weight in unexpected places. Hair grew where no hair should grow,.."
"Then I climbed into a clean nightgown Kirsty had outgrown. All of my own clothes had shrunk mysteriously. They were painfully tight around the chest, and the bottoms of the leggings had climbed halfway up my shins."
"On the contrary, I had to let out the seams of my first suit of new clothes while I was still working on the last. I could no longer reach the old..."
"She stands sideways in front of the mirror in the hall, studying her chest. And sure enough, there are two little bumps there..."
"...and had dragged it downstairs for dressup. They took turns trying and failing to cram their huge feet and waists into the tiny shoes and gowns."
- cover

Woof!
(TF's) Allan Ahlberg. One morning, for no apparent reason, 10-year-old Eric Banks turns into a Norfolk terrier. This causes no end of problems for Eric, as his parents shoo him out of the house and he must fend for himself on the streets. Fortunately, the change is only temporary; he soon turns back into a boy, but he never knows when or where he will change into a dog again. (TF) cover

World Out of Time, A
- (male adult rejuvenation) Larry Niven. Aging is dependent on cellular poisons that can be removed. However, people who have them removed don't instantly turn young, but gradually improve as their younger cells repair the body.

Wrathworld: A Science Fiction Novel
- (adult rapid size and height increase)
"Angela bolted the door. Satisfied, she stripped to her panties. Her small breasts looked like milk chocolate. Dark nipples tipped with heads of black.
"I must change, too."
"Stand by for a surprise," Charles said.
Angela grasped both her breasts and squeezed the tips. The effect was instantaneous. No longer a tiny brown Nubian, she grew ten inches taller, transfigured into a buxom brunette with rosy cheeks.
"Honey, when you change," Charles said admiringly, "You really change."
"You two were lovers?"

Wyrms
(male AP) 1987, Orson Scott Card. 13 y.o. Patience learns she is destined to give birth to Kristos, first of a superior human race. Baby boy grows up fast. (2BYA)

Xanth series
Dastard, The
(APed, ARing) Magic of Xanth Series #24. by Piers Anthony.
Young man Anomy can step back in time to alter key events, making people miserable by undoing joyous events in their lives. 4-year-old princesses Melody, Harmony, and Rhythm want to stop the Dastard, and travel to an alternate world to switch themselves with their adult versions. Becka, a girl who can transform into a dragon, becomes the Dastard's travelling companion. The Sea Hag steals adult Melody's body, and gains Melody's reality-altering powers.
"They turned out to be age nineteen, but were a decade downtime from him, so as they traveled east they grew younger. When each passed twelve, her large bare breasts faded out and her body became spare.
When they cantered up to his house they ranged from age nine for Cheline down to age six for Chel."
... suddenly they were twenty years old, full grown. They gazed at each other, awed. "We're beautiful," Melody said.
"Lovely," Harmony agreed.
"Phenomenal," Rhythm concluded.
"And I'm huge," Sim peeped.

Xanth series
Two to the Fifth
(AP, RN) Piers Anthony.
- p104 - ...a person one decade, for an hour."
- (APed to age 17) She adjusted her dress, which fit her somewhat tightly now. In fact rather more bosom showed than was usual, as it strained at the girl-sized bodice lacing.
- p110 - "I [would be] old enough at seventeen to understand my feeling. I'd do anything you wanted me to, even if I don't understand it, age no barrier."
She made a little gesture, as of opening her shirt. "Please, Cyrus, take me. My body isn't quite there yet, but my spirit is." Her blush had become furious; she knew she was making a forbidden offer.
He was appalled. "But you're a child!"
"Are you rejecting me, after I bared my secret heart at you?"
"Of course I am. I would never touch a child. The Adult Conspiracy forbids it."
"Even though you now know I'm really more like seventeen?"
"You would have to be seventeen in mind and body to have any right to do what you ask."
...any woman spurned was dangerous, and a sorceress especially so, regardless of her age.
Then the vapor cleared. Rhythm had activated another decade spell. Now she was 22, lovely and wild-haired. "Oh, my," Cyrus breathed, awed by the transformation.
"I'm not a child anymore," she said. "Am I?"
"N-No. But-"
"Now I have much the same body I had at 17. This dress is way too tight," she said. She ripped it open and dropped it on the ground. Her bra and panties were splitting at the seams, and she ripped them off too, letting her abruptly mature body spring to its full unfettered dimensions. It wasn't just her flaming red hair that was wild; it was her whole personality.
She stood resplendently, defiantly nude.
Cyrus freaked out. He stood immobile, unable to rip his gaze from her remarkable body. It might exist only for an hour, but it overwhelmed him. This was the very image of his Perfect Woman. Doubly dangerous because he knew she was really a child, despite what she said.
- p144 - She must have invoked the Decade spell... Why?
"So they don't separate us, dear," Rhythm replied to his thought, squeezing his hand...
- p157 - She brought out the Decade spell and invoked it before he could protest. Her loose dress became tight in places before she remembered and changed its size.
- p184 - "But you know she has that Decade spell, that can age a person 10 years, for an hour."
"I know. I tried it, remember. Otherwise I might be jealous."
- "Suppose it is somehow accelerating? So that it didn't stop at a decade." He hesitated. "Rhythm, you're still beautiful, but you look older."
She fetched a small mirror from somewhere. It couldn't have been a pocket, because she remained beautifully nude. "Oh, my! I am old! I look 23 or 24!"
Or 25 or 26. "If time is moving faster, it would mean that maybe the stork did take 9 months to deliver the baby, and now she's a year or so older."
Rhythm went to lift Kadence out of the basket, but the child was already crawling over the rim on her own. She went on hands and knees, then got tired of that, and lifted unsteadily to her feet. She was walking!
As they watched, the child became steadier on her feet, visibly growing. She was now a toddler, 2 or 3 years old. She was wearing a little dress. Had that been in the basket too?
"You're locked into adulthood," Cyrus said. "I love that, but it's dangerous. At this rate you'll soon grow too old for me."
"I'll never be that!" But she looked worried.
- He picked her up. She was now 3 or 4 years old, a healthy child.

Xanth series
(adult age stasis effect) Earlier novels feature Iris, a sorceress who uses illusions to maintain her aura of beauty.

Xanth
- Novels by Piers Anthony, AR/AP in following titles: (Jeffr_2bya)
Faun & Games
(AR/AP)
Swell Foop
(AR/AP)
Zombie Lover
(AR/AP) Brassy 15-year-old Breanna needs help to escape the unwelcome attentions of King Xeth of the Zombies, who tries to make her his queen.
Harpy Thyme
(growth CB, male rejuvenated magician) Piers Anthony. Xanth novel. P 267: "...and the man began to grow, enormously. He grew right out of his clothing, which was embarrassing; in fact his bare bottom was blushing. "Do not be concerned ... They would make do. So the Magician made the rest of them large. There was much blushing as they burst out of their clothes, and some glances of admiration before they faded out, and finally all of them, even the children, were huge..."

Xanth
(AP, RN) Two to the Fifth, Piers Anthony, 10/2008.
Princess Rhythm, age 12, confesses to having a crush on Cyrus Cyborg, a playwright dating several lovely actresses. He refuses to take her seriously. Bad mistake; never antagonize a Sorceress of any age. She enchants herself to be 10 years older, hauls him into a love spring... And reverts to her normal age after an hour, leaving him hopelessly in love with a woman who won't exist for another decade. The stork, having received the signal, brings a baby.

Xanth
(old age) Piers Anthony. Electra is technically 800 years older than she looks. Whenever she visits non-magical Mundania, she starts aging rapidly.
Man from Mundania
"...Electra here is aging and we have to get her back. She's actually fifteen years old, in Xanth..."
"She was older emotionally, too. She was aging in every way."
"AT THE PRESENT RATE OF PROGRESSION, SHE SHOULD HAVE ABOUT THREE MORE DAYS BEFORE FAILING FROM OLD AGE, the screen printed."

Xombies
(age stasis) 2004, Walter Greatshell. 17-year-old Louise "Lulu" Pangloss suffers from a condition that slows her body's growth. A virus known as Maenad Cytosis, Agent X for short, is sweeping the country and turning people, especially women whose bodies have started menstruation, into raging zombie killers.

Year of Living Biblically, The
- (male adult face FF) male cover - beard

You'll Grow Into Them, Titch
(UC, coming of age) Pat Hutchins. A little girl named Titch has outgrown her clothes. Titch discovers that she no longer fits her pants. Her brother offers Titch some of his old pants that he has outgrown. Right now her brothers pants are too big, but he tells her "You'll soon grow into them, Titch!" Her sister then offers her an old sweater that she no longer fits in. The sweater is also too big for Titch but she is told that she will eventually grow into it. Titch's older siblings even offer her socks that they no longer fit into. Now with clothes that are too big, and clothes that are too small, Titchs parents take her to the store and purchase her clothing that fits her perfectly. Titch offers the baby some of her old clothes. "He'll soon grow into them".

young man in a hurry: and other short stories, A
(UC scene) Robert William Chambers.
"I am the path-Master," she said.
He looked down at her curiously; she had outgrown her faded pink skirts. Her sleeves were too short, and so tight that the plump, white arm threatened to split them to the shoulder. Her shoes were quite as ragged..."

Young Wizards Series
(growth, coming of age) The main character, Nita who's 13, has a T-shirt that reads "Watch This Space For Further Developments". Her sister thinks it's tacky, but she apparently likes it.

Younger
(AR) Pamela Redmond Satran. A 44 year old woman tries and succeeds in passing herself off as a 22 year old woman, and that's when the trouble begins. (Agemagic)

Your Growing Child
- (FF coming of age info) - AA cover

You're a Little Kid with a Big Heart
(AP) Waber, Bernard. Houghton Mifflin, 1980, 48 pages. Octavia Blisswink, age 7 is granted every child's favorite wish to grow up fast! At least it was until her wish actually comes true and she finds her 7 year old self in a 39 year old body! cover

Zeig Mal!
(coming of age transitions) AKA Show Me! 1970s, West-Germany. Peter Hammer Verlag. 72 pictures, contains Nudity.
Photographer: Will McBride. Text: Helga Fleischhauer-Hardt.
Banned sex-ed photo book, access restricted to law enforcement personnel. Withdrawn by publisher after court cases, the book focuses on the emotional intensity that should surely be highlighted. The captions represent the photographed children and their parents.
Boy: When I touch your breasts my penis gets all stiff. Whenever I see a girl's breasts I become HAPPY and EXCITED.
Girl: It's fun holding on to your penis.
Boy: I think it's FUN too.

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