{"product_id":"not-much-just-chillin-isbn-9780345475763","title":"Not Much Just Chillin'","description":"Suddenly they go from striving for A’s 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHere 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 what’s really going on under kids’ don’t-touch-me facade while they grapple with schoolwork, puberty, romance, and identity. A must-read for parents and educators, \u003ci\u003eNot Much Just Chillin’\u003c\/i\u003e offers a trail map to the baffling no-man’s-land between child and teen.“Perlstein’s interpretation of what’s going on inside [middle schooler’s] hormone-charged world is information every educator and parent should have. . . . A fascinating and important book.”\u003cbr\u003e–\u003ci\u003eAtlanta Journal-Constitution\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Linda Perlstein has a wonderful and compassionate way of presenting the incredibly poignant day-to-day stories of middle schoolers. A truly valuable book.”\u003cbr\u003e–ANTHONY E. WOLF, PH.D., author of \u003ci\u003eGet Out of My Life, but First Could You Drive Me and Cheryl to the Mall?\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eChillin’\u003c\/i\u003e may not make parents feel more comfortable about early adolescence’s arrival in their household, but it will certainly make them more prepared.”\u003cbr\u003e–\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“PERLSTEIN IS A GODSEND. . . . ELOQUENTLY ARTICULATING THE STUDENTS’ HIDDEN PERSPECTIVES.”\u003cbr\u003e–\u003ci\u003eWashingtonian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eLinda Perlstein\u003c\/b\u003e was a prizewinning education reporter for \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eNot Much Just Chillin’\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in Washington, D.C.[quote] -- The Atlanta Journal-Constitution","brand":"Ballantine Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302644011237,"sku":"NP9780345475763","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780345475763.jpg?v=1767733899","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/not-much-just-chillin-isbn-9780345475763","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}