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Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life is a realistic fiction novel by James Patterson that serves as the beginning of Patterson's Middle School series. [1] Published in the United States by Little, Brown and Company on June 27, 2011, the book follows sixth grader Rafe Khatchadorian as he begins middle school and copes with the awkwardness of adolescence, "crushes, bullying, family issues ...
The series was published by Archway Paperbacks from 1985 to 1993. The series centers on Linda Berman and her love life from the fourth grade to the summer after her senior year. The first book, We Hate Everything But Boys (which deals with Linda's sixth grade experiences) is the most successful and well known of the series. It was released twice.
The book received mixed reviews. Reviewing the book in The Washington Post, Gerald Early felt, "The best part of this autobiography...is Simone's recollection of her childhood," but said "in the end, [the book] seems sketchy and self-defensive....She tells very little either about the times in which she lived, or about the people who were most instrumental to her growth after her childhood ...
Raina Telgemeier (/ ˈ t ɛ l ɡ ə ˌ m aɪ ər /, [1] May 26, 1977 [2]) is an American cartoonist.Her works include the autobiographical webcomic Smile, which was published as a full-color middle grade graphic novel in February 2010, and the follow-up Sisters and the fiction graphic novel Drama, all of which have been on The New York Times Best Seller lists.
The market expanded into middle grade as well, witnessed by such well-received examples as Raina Telgemeier's books, the March series, and Cece Bell's El Deafo. 2010: Smile, by Raina Telgemeier, gives an account of the author's life from sixth grade to high school. The book won the 2010 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Nonfiction. [30]
In 1998 Freedman received the Children's Literature Legacy Award from the professional children's librarians, which recognizes a living author or illustrator whose books, published in the United States, have made "a substantial and lasting contribution to literature for children". At the time it was awarded every three years.
Boy: Tales of Childhood (1984) is an autobiography written by British writer Roald Dahl. [1] This book describes his life from early childhood until leaving school, focusing on living conditions in Britain in the 1920s and 1930s, the public school system at the time, and how his childhood experiences led him to writing children's books as a career.
A Proud American: The Autobiography of Joe Foss: 1992 Tex Johnson: Tex Johnston: Jet-Age Test Pilot: 1992 Harry H. Crosby: A Wing and a Prayer: The "Bloody 100th" Bomb Group of the U.S. Eighth Air Force in Action over Europe in World War II: 1993 Lawrence A. Hyland: Call Me Pat: The Autobiography of the Man Howard Hughes Chose to Lead Hughes ...