Spring 2025

How to Handle Stress for Middle School Success

Kid Confident Book 3

From the Series Kid Confident: Middle Grade Shelf Help

  • Interest Level: Grade 6 - Grade 9
  • Reading Level: Grade 7

“Smart and essential!”—Jeff Kinney, Diary of a Wimpy Kid

Middle school can be stressful. On the outside, you can look like everything is going great. On the inside, you may worry a lot—about making decisions, staying on top of your schoolwork, being more independent, making friends, and keeping yourself and everyone else happy. And all that can seriously stress you out. Want to know the trick to managing all that stress? Learn stress management level-up skills and become the boss of your brain! Inside, you’ll discover tons of strategies and methods to coach yourself through anything middle school throws your way, so stress and worry don’t get in the way of the things that matter the most to you and being the confident kid you are.

How to Handle Stress for Middle School Success l is part of an awesome book series developed with expert psychologist and series editor, Bonnie Zucker, PsyD, that authentically captures the middle school experience. These nonfiction books skillfully guide middle schoolers through those tricky years between elementary and high school with a supporting voice of a trusted older sibling or a favorite aunt, stealthily offering life lessons and evidence-based coping skills. Readers of Telgemeir’s Guts will recognize similar mental health and wellness strategies, and fans of Patterson’s Middle School series will appreciate the honest look at uncertainty and chaos that middle graders can bring.

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978-1-4338-3816-3
$12.74
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Interest Level Grade 6 - Grade 9
Reading Level Grade 7
Genre Social Studies
Category 5 Kinds of Nonfiction, 5KN: Traditional Nonfiction, SEL: A Self-Awareness, SEL: B Self-Management, Social Emotional Learning
Copyright 2023
Publisher Magination Press, American Psychological Association
Imprint Magination Press — American Psychological Association
Language English
Number of Pages 304
Publication Date 2025-01-01
Text Type Informational/Explanatory
BISACS JNF024140, JNF053050, JNF053160
Dimensions 5.5 x 8.5
Features Author/Illustrator biography, Bibliography/further reading, Charts/Graphs/Diagrams, Index, Reviewed, Sidebars, and Table of contents

Reviews

Tom Angleberger

“They used to tell kids to chant ‘sticks and stones’ or ‘just ignore it.’ It didn’t work. This book helps kids find the opposite approach: don’t ignore it; understand it.”—Tom Angleberger, Origami Yoda

Jeff Kinney

“Smart and essential!”—Jeff Kinney, author of Diary of a Wimpy Kid

School Library Journal

“Guerra provides readers helpful information on where stress comes from, as well as tools and tips for how they can manage it . . . [T]his volume is highly practical and will be encouraging to middle schoolers in need of support. Directions for new exercises or strategies are well laid out and easy to follow. Visual elements, particularly charts, organize the information thoughtfully. . . . This well-organized and practical guide to stress management is a great choice for upper elementary and middle school libraries.”—School Library Journal