Squishies and ‘a fuzzy book’: 21 things tweens want for back-to-school season, according to tweens

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This fall, gen Alpha heads back to school. As the adults in their lives, you can’t stop them from calling you “unc” or prepare them for AI’s infiltration of their classrooms. Yet you can equip them with the right back-to-school essentials – whether a new pencil case or the toy of the moment. We interviewed six kids aged nine through 12 (many of them the children of Guardian staff!), asking them what made their back-to-school wish list or what they’ve already grabbed for the year. And we tapped the opinion of a few spunky eight-year-olds – because they’ll be tweens soon enough. *** $8.95 at Walmart $8.99 at Amazon I…

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