Still Us - for Every Tween Who Has Ever Wondered If Their Friendships Are Normal: A Middle School Friendship Book Girls and Boys Ages 913

Some books tell you how to make friends. This one is about what happens after.The weird text that ruins your whole afternoon. The group chat that goes cold without warning. The friend who acts completely different around certain people. The moment everything feels fine - except it really doesn't.Nobody warned you about any of that.Still Us is not a list of rules. It's not a lecture. It's real friendship moments - the awkward ones, the confusing ones, the ones that feel small but somehow take up way too much space in your head - told honestly, with humor, and without making you feel like you're doing everything wrong.Because you're not. You're feeling everything. You're noticing everything. You're trying to figure out people who are also trying to figure out themselves.Inside: real stories that feel familiar, a friendship toolkit with prompts and reflection pages, a chapter that will make you laugh out loud, and a poem for the days that feel a little heavy.This book will not make middle school perfect. But it might make it feel a little less lonely.And honestly? That's the whole point.A note for grown-ups: Still Us is written for ages 9-13. It explores friendship dynamics - group chats, feeling left out, miscommunication, boundaries - through realistic scenarios and honest conversation rather than prescriptive advice. Warm, non-preachy, and genuinely useful for a stage of life that can feel surprisingly complicated.