middle school students

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.

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

Jeremy Bloom shows up late for the first day of middle school, missing his chance to choose his own classes and getting stuck in a poetry course where he produces forty-four D minus rhymes.

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

Star athlete Clara underestimates her athletic ability when she joins an after-school kayaking club and gets into trouble when she hits the whitewater.

When Alexis develops a crush on her friend Emma's brother, her new feelings interfere with her running of the Cupcake Club. She decides to handle the situation the same she would any other -- by conducting research and running tests -- but the situation soon becomes more complicated when she realizes she has to work things out with Emma as well.

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.

Hikago Sumino has low self-esteem and feels invisible to her classmates, but her life starts to change when the most popular boy in her grade suddenly talks to her.

Eighth-grader Hikage Sumino has no self-esteem and is invisible to her classmates, but, when the most popular boy in the grade talks to her one day, she makes up her mind to change all that.