Planet Middle School

By Nikki Grimes

Subjects: Basketball stories, Novels in verse, Family life, fiction, Romance & relationships stories (Children's, Stories in rhyme, Basketball, Poetry (Children's, Friendship, fiction, Families, Middle schools, Social Themes, Coming of age, Basketball, fiction, Schools, fiction, Fiction, JUVENILE FICTION, Children's fiction, Bildungsromans, Adolescence, Juvenile fiction, Teenage), Schools, Family life, Friendship

Description: A series of poems describes all the baffling changes at home and at school in twelve-year-old Joylin's transition from tomboy basketball player to not-quite-girly girl.