This is a story about modern-day middle school students.
Through three supposedly ordinary, underachieving, and advanced classes, the novel brings to life a diverse cast of typical students: Jin Yiyi, Meng Meng, Liu Wei, Liu Yong, Wen Xiaoyu, Huang Li, and Peng Hui in the ordinary class; Lu Yan and Zhang Shen in the supposedly advanced class; and Yang Feng, Ma Ping, and Tian Yu in the supposedly underachieving class. It offers a sweeping portrait of these students’ long journey through middle school, from seventh to ninth grade, capturing the colorful campus life of modern teenagers and their joys and worries, moments of ease and pressure, hard work and insecurity, hopes and helplessness, diligence and confusion...
In this book, everyone can find a reflection of their own middle school days, along with familiar classmates and warm memories.
The prose is concise and fluid, the plot lively, moving, entertaining, and true to life, and the characters vivid and fully realized.
