pubescent

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“They even let pubescent girls swim in the sea,” moans the culture minister.
“他们甚至让青春期的女孩在海里游泳”文化部长抱怨道。
And yes, tampons for pubescent girls are fine as long as they're comfortable.
对，棉条对于青春期的女孩来说非常好，因为棉条更舒适。
She writes about herself and her pubescent, precocious, and, when necessary, cunning behavior with the same sobriety she uses to describe everything else.
她描写她本人，她的早熟，青春期的困惑，而且在必要的时候，她利用同样节制的狡猾行为去描写所有别的事情。

In an impoverished rural society, pubescent girls are bought and sold like cattle, and often treated little better.
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Arranged marriage is also common, and some cultures marry off girls while they are still pubescent or even younger.
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It allows for marriage to pre-pubescent girls, stipulating that Islamic divorce procedures "shall apply to those who have not yet menstruated" (65:4).
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A pubescent child is at the stage in life when they are developing from a child into an adult and becoming able to have children.

A pubescent girl or boy has reached the stage in their life when their body is becoming physically like an adult's.