Chill Out and Stop Making This Weird

Book excerpt: Chill Out & Stop Making This Weird is a middle grade novel about a lovable and confused girl trying to survive puberty through the balance of humor, a little sass, and moments of everyday preteen anxiety. Maddie delivers essential information about complex and intimate topics with her step by step instructional survival guide extraordinaire on how to endure this baffling life experience, connecting the girl in all of us.Until now, Maddie has gotten away with not having a clue about her changing body. She's always laughed through the dumb puberty jokes as if she understands them. But when she realizes that she isn't invited as a member of the Period Club, nor even knew one existed, things become less funny. It doesn't help that being clueless and braless adds a whole new challenge to tween survival.Will the lovable and confused Maddie endure one.more.day of menstruation talk while having to sit next to the hottie-of-hots, Chet Johnson? Will she follow her grandiose plan to skip school during the puberty unit or will she chicken out?Isn't there a puberty survival manual filled with step-by-step instructions on how to endure this baffling life experience? Where's one when you desperately need one?