false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178394242m/791444.jpg 791444 3 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 path-breaking 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, <i>Not Much Just Chillin</i> offers a trail map to the baffling no-man's-land between child and teen. 2308883 2003 Not Much Just Chillin': The Hidden Lives of Middle Schoolers total:107|5:17|4:36|3:45|2:7|1:2| 107 380 185 34 3 1 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Oct 25 07:22:53 -0700 2007 Thu Oct 25 07:34:05 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 1 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Thu May 22 11:56:04 -0700 2008 Thu May 22 19:50:35 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Apr 01 19:36:53 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 01 19:36:53 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 1 false false Wed Jul 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 28 14:02:55 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 29 12:34:17 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sun Jul 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 19 10:47:23 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 19 10:58:27 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Wed Apr 15 18:15:32 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 15 18:19:39 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Nov 14 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Mar 23 12:58:13 -0700 2009 Sat Nov 14 14:47:20 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Mar 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 19 17:48:26 -0700 2008 Tue Mar 10 09:19:32 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Oct 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 19 15:05:57 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 19 15:06:32 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 16 17:10:07 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 16 17:10:07 -0800 2009 3 0 false false Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 25 07:34:26 -0700 2008 Fri Sep 19 14:00:48 -0700 2008 more...]]> 0 0 false false Mon Jul 20 10:21:01 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 20 10:23:00 -0700 2009 want to read this, but based on my own children's experiences the one year they attended middle school, I have no doubt it's true. ]]> 0 0 false false Mon Jun 08 13:55:48 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 08 13:56:14 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Sun May 17 15:09:59 -0700 2009 Sun May 17 15:10:34 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Tue Feb 03 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 18:16:10 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 18:18:11 -0800 2009 2 0 false false Mon Apr 20 18:29:24 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 20 18:30:02 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Fri Feb 20 19:58:52 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 12 08:53:54 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 20 19:58:52 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Feb 15 08:40:29 -0800 2008 Wed May 14 06:56:30 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 0 false false Tue Jul 08 14:26:57 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 08 14:26:57 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2004 Sun Jul 08 23:20:03 -0700 2007 Sun Jul 08 23:26:26 -0700 2007 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=791444