The Overachievers: The Secret Lives of Driven Kids
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Book Description
The bestselling author of Pledged 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 spiral... More
Book Information
Publisher | Hachette |
Binding | Hardcover (8 editions) |
Reading Level | Uncategorized |
# of Pages | 448 |
ISBN-10 | 1401302017 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1401302016 |
Publication Date | 08/08/2006 |
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9/17/2009 Julie Rion said:
tags: I recommend
When my daughter was assigned this book for her junior year summer reading assignment, I picked it up and got hooked from the first page. Although I recognize Robbins' biases in her case study of a goup of high school students from her Bethesda, Maryland alma mater, it completely changed both my dau... more
tags: I recommend
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