Andrew was one of 11 students stuck with needles on Thursday by two eighth-grade girls who stole small needles from a school infirmary, the authorities said.

It was refreshing to read about a popular eighth-grade girl going out of her way to help an unpopular classmate who was being bullied.

Giggling eighth-grade girls squeezed three on a seat in the dark after their spring choral concert.

An eighth-grade girl skipped breakfast and lunch altogether and had a Coke after school, followed by a sandwich for dinner.

His teacher had asked him to play for the eighth-grade girls' choir.

Ms. Orenstein found both groups of eighth-grade girls less assertive and confident than their male peers.

They reconsidered after being approached by Eric Meyer, a father of four - the oldest an eighth-grade girl - who offered to pay for the expansion.

Holy Child, a private Roman Catholic school for fifth- to eighth-grade girls, is an experiment in school as family.

The youth organization's decision not to give the eighth-grade girls their medals was their second disappointment.

And a third shows a photograph of an eighth-grade girl, eyes open in shock as she examines a piece leopard-skin lingerie.