Spring 2025

How to Manage Your Social Power in Middle School

Kid Confident Book 1

From the Series Kid Confident: Middle Grade Shelf Help

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

Do you know what “social power” is? HINT: You experience it every day, you share it with your friends and classmates, and when it is balanced and equal, you feel AWESOME. But when it’s unequal or out of whack, you feel All. That. Drama . . . right?

This book gives you a real look at the social life of middle graders and offers expert ways to deal when unbalanced social power situations and unfriendly peers happen. Loaded with safe and appropriate strategies and easy-to-apply advice, you’ll get just what to need to blossom and grow through an often-turbulent time in your life. With this, you will thrive in your friendships, figure out who you are, become the best version of yourself, and have a rock-solid sense of confidence. Middle school doesn’t have to be the worst thing ever!

How to Manage Your Social Power in Middle School is part of an awesome nonfiction series developed with expert psychologist and series editor, Bonnie Zucker, PsyD, that authentically captures the middle school experience. These books skillfully guide middle schoolers through those tricky years between elementary and high school with a supporting voice of a trusted big sister 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 the uncertainty and chaos that middle graders can bring. Kid Confident offers what kids need to have fun with it all and navigate middle school with confidence, humor, perspective, and feel our mad respect for being the amazing humans they already are.

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978-1-4338-3814-9
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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, SEL: D Relationship Skills, Social Emotional Learning
Copyright 2022
Publisher American Psychological Association
Imprint Magination Press — American Psychological Association
Language English
Number of Pages 224
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, Sidebars, and Table of contents

Author: Bonnie Zucker

Bonnie Zucker, PsyD, is a licensed psychologist in private practice. She received her undergraduate degree from George Washington University, her master’s degree from the University of Baltimore, and her doctoral degree from the Illinois School of Professional Psychology in Chicago.

Illustrator: DeAndra Hodge

DeAndra Hodge is an illustrator and designer based in Washington, DC. She received her bachelor of arts in graphic design from University of Montevallo.