{"product_id":"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.","brand":"Perlstein, Linda","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback B102","offer_id":68263747944660,"sku":"9780345475763","price":27.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/9208\/files\/BNCImageAPI_f327de1c-467a-49b7-b5e6-c7acd551bb6d.jpg?v=1793643386","url":"https:\/\/penguinshop.ca\/products\/9780345475763","provider":"Penguin Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}