He has a fear of blood, because he tried to commit suicide during his middle-school years due to constantly being bullied.

Most recall their middle-school years as relentlessly boring and so are determined to present invigorating lessons.

Dr. Tassone said that studies showed that students who learned second languages early did better in mathematics and language arts in the middle-school years.

It's in the middle-school years that they start to drift away.

In the middle-school years, they typically gravitate to others like themselves, forming a defiant band on the rim of schoolyard society.

But carrying this forward to the middle-school years, it is so obvious that girls mature earlier, both physically and socially.

As girls will in their middle-school years, they shifted alliances.

Davis aides said the governor had agreed to abandon his hope of extending the middle-school year, along with other programs for elementary and secondary schools and community colleges.

Fill achieved his first successes during his middle-school years, while he was coached by Peter Thomaseth.

As a young girl, she wanted to study paleontology, but decided to be a cartoonist after reading a comic during her middle-school years.