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Quizzes, stories, surveys, and activities for middle schoolers addressing such issues as physical and emotional changes, connecting with friends and family, setting goals, and handling peer pressure.

Explains how teachers and librarians can steer students to the literature they love by focusing on three key areas: knowing the readers, knowing the books, and knowing the strategies to motivate students to read.

Presents annotated listings of 13,523 recommended books for students in grades six through nine, most published between 1999 and 2003, grouped in sixty-five major subject areas, each with publisher, price, ISBN, and review sources.

When middle school student BJ Levine finds a strange notebook with instructions on how to be a "rock god," he embarks on a quest to become famous but finds the journey filled with danger and mystery.

A guidebook to help deal with changes in school, families, social lives, and bodies that come during the middle school years, with specific advice for a variety of situations.

As Ko enters his second year of high school and Aoba her first, the regionals for Summer Koshien are heating up.

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

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.

A collection of 101 inspirational stories about middle school by teenagers.

Provides insights into what is really going on in the lives and thoughts of middle-schoolers through an anthropological study which follows five representative students at a Maryland middle school through the course of one school year.

A selection guide to help librarians, teachers, and patrons identify the best of the many books published each year for readers in middle school and junior high.

Contains eighteen plays for two to five cast members which take no more than ten minutes to act out and are suitable for middle school students.

"Riverdale High's Kevin Keller recounts his days at middle school dealing with bullies, finding a date for the prom, and the life changing moment when he realized he was gay"--OCLC.