{"product_id":"not-much-just-chillin-the-hidden-lives-of-middle-schoolers-0345475763","title":"Not Much Just Chillin': The Hidden Lives of Middle Schoolers","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0345475763\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Perlstein, Linda\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSuddenly they go from striving for As 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 whats really going on under kids dont-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-mans-land between child and teen.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51738846724384,"sku":"NEW0345475763","price":13.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/61D2dXD7nNL.jpg?v=1779614235","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/not-much-just-chillin-the-hidden-lives-of-middle-schoolers-0345475763","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}