How to Survive Junior High

by Ann Hodgman, Patty Marx, Mena Dolobowsky (Illustrator)

A tongue-in-cheek guide to junior high covers differences from elementary school, the daily schedule, traditions, lockers, passing notes, teachers, excuses, and cafeteria etiquette

143 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1994

About the author

Ann Hodgman (born 1956) is an American author of more than forty children's books as well as several cookbooks and humor books and many magazine articles.

Ann was raised in Rochester, New York and graduated from Harvard College, where she was a staff member on the Harvard Lampoon and the Harvard Advocate. She was the food columnist for the magazines Spy and Eating Well. Her essay "No Wonder They Call Me a Bitch," about taste-testing various dog foods, was included in "Best American Essays." Hodgman is also known for her three cookbooks, Beat This!, Beat That! and One Bite Won't Kill You. She is the author of the 6-book vampire series My Babysitter is a Vampire and the nonfiction memoir "The House of a Million Pets."

Hodgman is married to author David Owen, a staff writer for The New Yorker, and they have two children, Laura and John.

Reviews

[chelsea · Rating 5 out of 5]

upon rereading it recently, it actually still made me laugh, years after I finished junior high. who knew?