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Not Much Just Chillin': The Hidden Lives Of Middle Schoolers
Linda Perlstein
The Hidden Lives of Middle Schoolers
Ballantine Books
September 2004
On Sale: August 31, 2004
288 pages
ISBN: 0345475763
EAN: 9780345475763
Paperback
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Non-Fiction
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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