How I Survived Junior High — C. Dale Brittain

Back before cell phones, before computers or streaming video, even before they called it middle school, life was easier, right? Wrong! It's the early 1960s. Shelley, shy and twelve years old, leaves a small elementary school for a big junior high. Her experiences are both painful and very funny. Will she be able to make friends? Will the kids in the popular clique even notice her? Which is more obnoxious, her little brother or the school principal? Why is her body changing like this, and will she ever get a date?