Edition |
First edition. |
Description |
178 pages : photos ; 22 cm |
Summary |
Best-selling and award-winning authors take on the brave new world of middle school in this remarkable collection, brimming with humor and heart. Subjects range from peer pressure, homework, family issues, and cultural barriers to the unexpected saving graces of music, art, friendship, and reading. This engaging anthology, filled with texts, emails, formal letters, stories in verse, first-person narratives, and even a short graphic novel, shines a light on the sometimes challenging, always rewarding coming-of-age years. |
Contents |
Letters / by Lois Lowry -- What planet are you from? / by Gregory Maguire -- When she whined in her sleep / by Gary D. Schmidt -- Looking for home / by Karen Cushman -- How to make s'mores / by Hena Khan -- The skater / by Mary Downing Hahn -- Imaginary mambo / by Margarita Engle -- Ode to the Band Room / by Joyce Sidman -- TBH I NEED HELP!! / by Katherine Paterson and Jordan Paterson -- Dog people / by Linda Sue Park and Anna Dobbin -- Middle school / by David Wiesner. |
Subject |
Middle schools -- Juvenile fiction.
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Middle school students -- Juvenile fiction.
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Middle schools -- Juvenile fiction.
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Middle school students -- Juvenile fiction.
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JUVENILE FICTION / Humorous Stories.
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JUVENILE FICTION / School & Education.
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JUVENILE FICTION / Short Stories.
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Middle school students. (OCoLC)fst01020531
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Middle schools. (OCoLC)fst01020553
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Genre/Form |
Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
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Juvenile works. (OCoLC)fst01411637
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Added Author |
Groban, Betsy, editor, writer of introduction.
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Lowry, Lois.
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Maguire, Gregory.
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Schmidt, Gary D.
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Cushman, Karen.
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Khan, Hena.
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Hahn, Mary Downing
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Engle, Margarita
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Sidman, Joyce.
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Paterson, Katherine.
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Paterson, Jordan.
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Park, Linda Sue.
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Dobbin, Anna.
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Wiesner, David.
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Added Title |
Totally middle school |
ISBN |
1524772208 (trade) |
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9781524772208 (trade) |
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1524772216 (library binding) |
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9781524772215 (library binding) |
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