Meet The Class

Buckle your seatbelts! The Magic School bus is ready to ride again—and kids can get to know Ms. Frizzle’s students in this colorful book. The Magic School Bus books took children on many adventurous field trips that taught them about science, inspiring an Emmy Award–winning animated show on PBS. Now Netflix has revived and updated the series for a new generation of kids. Meet Walkerville’s newest class with this introduction to The Magic School Bus perfect for young fans. Learn all about your favorite students from the original series like Keesha, Ralphie, D.A., and Arnold—plus a few new friends!

Meet Walkerville's newest class with this introduction to The Magic School Bus perfect for the series' youngest fans. Learn all about your favorite students from the original series like Keesha, Ralphie, D.A., and Arnold plus a few new friends.

This volume delves into the study of the world’s emerging middle class. With essays on Europe, the United States, Africa, Latin America, and Asia, the book studies recent trends and developments in middle class evolution at the global, regional, national, and local levels. It reconsiders the conceptualization of the middle class, with a focus on the diversity of middle class formation in different regions and zones of world society. It also explores middle class lifestyles and everyday experiences, including experiences of social mobility, feelings of insecurity and anxiety, and even middle class engagement with social activism. Drawing on extensive fieldwork and in-depth interviews, the book provides a sophisticated analysis of this new and rapidly expanding socioeconomic group and puts forth some provocative ideas for intellectual and policy debates. It will be of importance to students and researchers of sociology, economics, development studies, political studies, Latin American studies, and Asian Studies.

Noted scholar Lois Weis first visited the town of "Freeway" in her 1990 book, Working Class Without Work. In that book we met the students and teachers of Freeway's high school to understand how these working-class folks made sense of their lives. Now, fifteen years later, Weis has gone back to Freeway for Class Reunion. This time her focus is on the now grown-up students who are, for the most part, still working class and now struggling to survive the challenges of the global economy. Class Reunion is a rare and valuable longitudinal ethnographic study that provides powerful, provocative insight into how the lives of these men and women have changed over the last two decades--and what their prospects might be for the future.