Middle school blues

"Twelve-year-old Cindy begins seventh grade with a certain amount of apprehension, but discovers that her new friends and experiences are thoroughly enjoyable."@en
"Twelve-year-old Cindy begins seventh grade with a certain amount of apprehension, but discovers that her new friends and experiences are thoroughly enjoyable."
"Cindy sorts out the confusion of beginning seventh grade: changing classes, competing for limited chairs in the band's saxophone section, missing last year's friends and noticing possible new ones by writing a rule book for middle school. She summarizes each experience in a maxim for her survival manual, e.g., don't laugh at funerals; choose enemies carefully; friends are changeable. Cindy exhibits typical adolescent behavior - secrecy, bruised emotions and mood swings, in an eventful year that culminates in a search for a friend who has run away from home because his father expects him to excel at sports when he prefers to work with computers."@en
"Nobody told Dindy that middle school was the middle of confusion with friends, school and love."@en