"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."--Dust jacket flap

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Letters / Lois Lowry -- What planet are you from? / Gregory Maguire -- When she whined in her sleep / Gary D. Schmidt -- Looking for home / Karen Cushman -- How to make s'mores / Hena Khan -- Skater / Mary Downing Hahn -- Imaginary mambo / Margarita Engle -- Ode to the Band Room / Joyce Sidman -- TBH I NEED HELP!! / Katherine Paterson and Jordan Paterson -- Dog people / Linda Sue Park and Anna Dobbin -- Middle school / David Wiesner