Not Much Just Chillin': The Hidden Lives of Middle Schoolers Paperback - 2004
by Linda Perlstein
Traversing the school year and following five representative kids, Linda Perlstein spent nine months immersed in the lives of suburban Maryland middle schoolers and emerged with this pathbreaking account, offering insight into the hormone-charged and little-understood world of pre-teens.
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On Monday morning some mothers drive their children to the bus stop, where they achingly resist the urge to hug their babies.
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Suddenly they go from striving for A'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 what's really going on under kids' don't-touch-me facade while they grapple with schoolwork, puberty, romance, and identity. A must-read for parents and educators, "Not Much Just Chillin' offers a trail map to the baffling no-man's-land between child and teen.
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- Title Not Much Just Chillin': The Hidden Lives of Middle Schoolers
- Author Linda Perlstein
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 288
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Ballantine Books, U.S.A.
- Date August 31, 2004
- ISBN 9780345475763 / 0345475763
- Weight 0.46 lbs (0.21 kg)
- Dimensions 8.06 x 5.26 x 0.63 in (20.47 x 13.36 x 1.60 cm)
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- Topical: Family
- Dewey Decimal Code 305.234
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Citations
- School Library Journal, 09/01/2007, Page 61
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