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A collection of photographs in which high school students capture their school experience and offer an inside look at everyday high school life.

Presents annotated listings of picture books on a wide variety of topics and discusses how they can be used to introduce middle school students to novels on related subject matters.

Seventh-grader Amy Flowers, new at Allington Academy, gains recognition from the other students after appearing in a fashion show and risks letting her Academic Challenge team down when she starts caring too much about being popular.

Discusses constructive ways for girls in middle school to spend their time.

A follow-up to the 1988 report by the Task Force on Education of Young Adolescents established by the Carnegie Corporation, looking at the lessons learned from the report, other national middle grades improvement efforts, and subsequent research in an effort to examine ways to improve middle grades education.

Provides advice for kids on how to deal with a variety of situations related to middle school, such as homework overload, problems with teachers, avoiding fights, getting a bad haircut, coping with cliques, and others.

Callie Singer finds herself in the running for student council president, but doesn't take the race too seriously, sure she will lose to the popular Brianna Blake, but when Brianna takes her dirty campaigning too far, Callie decides she is not going to give up without a fight.

Jenny McAfee feels totally prepared to start sixth grade until her best friend Addie Wilson decides to hang out with The Pops--the coolest seventh graders in the school.

Middle school student Jenny McAfee is thrilled when two of her friends are chosen as finalists in the annual statewide history test challenge, but when rumors start that one of them cheated, Jenny decides to find out the truth.

After Addie ditches her for the Pops, the most popular group in school, Jenny decides to run against Addie for sixth grade class president in an effort to stop the Pops from running the school.

When the middle school advice columnist, Madame X, starts writing about things only Jenny and her friends are aware of, Jenny sets out to uncover the true identity of the author.

Jenny is determined to find out who her secret admirer is, but first she must try and figure out a way to help her two best friends make up.

Jenny and her friends come up with a plan to challenge the Pops and their own exclusive "pep squad," hoping to win the fall spirit week competition.

Draws from interviews with middle school students to show what they need from their teachers; discussing expectations, understanding, social forces, parents, transitioning to high school, and other related topics.

When Jenny's friends start their own webcast, and it becomes popular, the Pops start a rival show and begin a ratings war, starring the Pops' fashion show against Jenny's friends' karaoke contest.