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From a middle school principal... | Not Much Just Chillin': The Hidden Lives of Middle Schoolers | Linda Perlstein

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	• Not Much Just Chillin': The Hidden Lives of Middle Schoolers Linda Perlstein Ballantine Books, 2004 - 288 pages average customer review:based on 25 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

I know how it is,

First of all, everyone that says this book isn't accurate is retarded. I go to WSMS and this book is so right it's like it was written by an eighth grader. She does a great job, perhaps you people don't have the insight to realise this book goes deeper. This book even helped me understand myself, I recommend it to girls and boys my age (eighth grade) who are looking to see through the eyes of another. It's hard being who we are, and this kinda makes it easier. :)

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I am very pleased with this purchase. It was just the book I needed to add to my collection of middle school literature.

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From a middle school principal...

I heard Linda speak at the National Middle School Convention in 2003. During her presentation, she used quotes from this text. I was so intrigued, I purchased the book that day and read it in its entirety throughout the following days.
Reading this took me back to my time as a 'junior high' student. The feelings came rushing back and that experience has changed many of the ways I deal with my middle school students each and every day. I recommend this to my teachers as it provides a unique, humorous and sometimes touching insight into the 'tweenagers' we encounter.
The book is well written and kept a reluctant reader VERY interested. I highly recommend this book to middle school teachers and parents of middle-aged children.

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Interesting, but draw your own conclusions

This is a thoroughly researched book at one middle school. Be careful taking the insights as generalizations. It uses good stories and provides lots of information, but makes no judgments or suggestions as to how to help your middle school student or what works with them. It also seems almost dated in reference to technology since it has already progressed to the point where most middle schoolers have cell phones, text messaging, email, etc. On the positive side, the study into relationships between parents and middle schoolers and friends is thought-provoking.

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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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