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Availability:Out of StockContributor:Alexandra RobbinsAudience:Young AdultPublish date:2007-08-07Pages:448
Language:EnglishPublisher:Hachette BooksISBN-13:9781401309022ISBN-10:140130902XUPC:9781401309022Book Category:Social Science, Family & RelationshipsBook Subcategory:Children's Studies, Life Stages, EducationBook Topic:TeenagersSize:8.00 x 5.20 x 1.30 inchesWeight:0.8003Product ID:SCDCHQD8MW

The Overachievers: The Secret Lives of Driven Kids

The bestselling author of Pledged and The Teachers returns with a groundbreaking look at the pressure to achieve faced by America's teens

In Pledged, Alexandra Robbins followed four college girls to produce a riveting narrative that read like fiction. Now, in The Overachievers, Robbins uses the same captivating style to explore how our high-stakes educational culture has spiraled out of control. During the year of her ten-year reunion, Robbins goes back to her high school, where she follows heart-tuggingly likeable students including "AP" Frank, who grapples with horrifying parental pressure to succeed; Audrey, whose panicked perfectionism overshadows her life; Sam, who worries his years of overachieving will be wasted if he doesn't attend a name-brand college; Taylor, whose ambition threatens her popular girl status; and The Stealth Overachiever, a mystery junior who flies under the radar.

Critical Teen Issues Examined

Robbins tackles teen issues such as intense stress, the student and teacher cheating epidemic, sports rage, parental guilt, the black market for study drugs, and a college admissions process so cutthroat that students are driven to suicide and depression because of a B.

With a compelling mix of fast-paced narrative and fascinating investigative journalism, The Overachievers aims both to calm the admissions frenzy and to expose its escalating dangers.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Hachette BooksISBN-13:9781401309022ISBN-10:140130902XUPC:9781401309022Book Category:Social Science, Family & RelationshipsBook Subcategory:Children's Studies, Life Stages, EducationBook Topic:TeenagersSize:8.00 x 5.20 x 1.30 inchesWeight:0.8003Product ID:SCDCHQD8MW

Alexandra Robbins, the author of five New York Times bestselling books and a Goodreads Best Nonfiction Book of the Year, is an award-winning investigative reporter who has been honored for "Distinguished Service to Public Education." She has written for several publications, including The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and The Atlantic, and has appeared on hundreds of television shows, including 60 Minutes, Today, CBS Mornings, The Oprah Winfrey Show, The View, and The Colbert Report.

Publisher: Hachette Books

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