Not Much Just Chillin': The Hidden Lives of Middle Schoolers

Not Much Just Chillin': The Hidden Lives of Middle Schoolers

Suddenly they go from striving for Aâ€™s to barely passing, from fretting about cooties to obsessing for hours about crushes. Former chatterboxes answer in monosyllables; freethinkers mimic everything from clothes to opinions. Their bodies and psyches morph through the most radical changes since infancy. They are kids in the middle-school years, the age every adult remembers well enough to dread.

Here at last is an up-to-date anthropology of this critically formative period. Prize-winning education reporter Linda Perlstein spent a year immersed in the lunchroom, classrooms, hearts, and minds of a group of suburban Maryland middle schoolers and emerged with this pathbreaking account. Perlstein reveals whatâ€™s really going on under kidsâ€™ donâ€™t-touch-me facade while they grapple with schoolwork, puberty, romance, and identity. A must-read for parents and educators, Not Much Just Chillinâ€™ offers a trail map to the baffling no-manâ€™s-land between child and teen.
Country USA
Brand BALLANTINE GROUP
Manufacturer Ballantine Books
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 0345475763_used
Color White
ReleaseDate 2004-08-31
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780345475763

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