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Not Much Just Chillin' : The Hidden Lives of Middle Schoolers
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Not Much Just Chillin' : The Hidden Lives of Middle Schoolers Paperback - 2004

by Perlstein, Linda

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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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First line

On Monday morning some mothers drive their children to the bus stop, where they achingly resist the urge to hug their babies.

From the jacket flap

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.

Media reviews

“Perlstein’s interpretation of what’s going on inside [middle schooler’s] hormone-charged world is information every educator and parent should have. . . . A fascinating and important book.”
–Atlanta Journal-Constitution

“Linda Perlstein has a wonderful and compassionate way of presenting the incredibly poignant day-to-day stories of middle schoolers. A truly valuable book.”
–ANTHONY E. WOLF, PH.D., author of Get Out of My Life, but First Could You Drive Me and Cheryl to the Mall?

“Chillin’ may not make parents feel more comfortable about early adolescence’s arrival in their household, but it will certainly make them more prepared.”
–The New York Times

“PERLSTEIN IS A GODSEND. . . . ELOQUENTLY ARTICULATING THE STUDENTS’ HIDDEN PERSPECTIVES.”
–Washingtonian

Citations

  • School Library Journal, 09/01/2007, Page 61

About the author

Linda Perlstein was a prizewinning education reporter for The Washington Post. She is the author of Not Much Just Chillin'. She lives in Washington, D.C.

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