Middle School Is Worse Than Meatloaf : A Year Told Through Stuff (Hardcover)

from KarenBall

This is a completely different type of storytelling -- it's "a year told through stuff." Ginny is a 7th grader who is loves ballet and wants to improve lots of things about her life. The book is set up like a scrapbook or portfolio of very ordinary things: post-it notes from her mother, lists, sh...

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Ginny Davis keeps a scrapbook of her 7th-grade year of school as she embarks on the strange new world of Middle School with excitement and expectation. The scrapbook begins with Ginny's school shopping list, her class schedule, and "Ginny's Big To Do List!!!" Each page records a moment in Ginny's...

from momccarthy

We are invited into Ginny's life through notes, ticket stubs, bank statements, newspaper articles, medical reports, English assignments, report cards, etc. Part of the fun and humor is piecing her life together through these objects. The laughter at the start of the book sometimes gives way to so...

from artlibby

Meet Ginny Davis, a seventh grader trying to deal with all the self esteem issues facing a middle schooler in modern day America. The reader follows her seventh grade journey through a hybrid visual diary meets scrapbook format. The illustrations and layout are as much a part of the story as the ...

from CarolineBraden

In this book, protagonist Ginny takes readers on a visual tour of her seventh grade year and all of its ups and downs through a scrapbook-type book filled with various kinds of "stuff" - to do lists, journal entries, school assignments, drawings, newspaper clippings, instant messages, cards, etc....