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Middle School Is Worse than Meatloaf: A Year Told through Stuff
120 pp.
| Atheneum/Seo |
July, 2007 |
TradeISBN 978-0-689-85281-7$12.99
(3)
4-6
Illustrated by
Elicia Castaldi.
Ginny's event-filled seventh-grade year is presented through attractively doodled to-do lists, notes, report cards, writing assignments, and IMs. Her widowed mother dates and remarries, her troubled older brother gets sent to military school, and Ginny contends with friendships old and new. A well-rounded portrait of Ginny and her family shines through the concise entries.