Cultivating Positive Peer Groups and Friendships (Library Binding) (ISBN-13: 9781448883110)

Middle school is the ultimate transitional time in a young person's life. Amidst all the other changes, one's friendships are also growing, evolving, expanding, and sometimes ending. Students from several different elementary schools are suddenly thrown together and new peer and friendship groups form. During a period of such momentous change and flux, the shifting and expanding of friendships and acquaintanceships can be unsettling and disorienting. This book provides a wise and reassuring guide to the seeming chaos, offering insightful and gentle advice on how to make new friends, maintain old friendships, and get along and work well with new classmates. Readers learn to confront the end of friendships that no longer work with compassion and empathy. Full of useful strategies for spotting and dealing potentially toxic friendships, "bad crowds," and bullies, this book provides all the tools a young person needs to surround him or herself with kind, dynamic, engaged, and mutually supportive and nurturing friends-for-life.

Author: Kathy Furgang,Adam Furgang
ISBN-10: 1448883113
ISBN-13: 9781448883110
Publisher: Rosen Central
Language: English
Published: 12/30/2012
Pages: 64
Format: Library Binding
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.70w x 0.40d

Review Citation(s):
School Library Journal 07/01/2013 pg. 115