The Overachievers: The Secret Lives Of Driven Kids,New

The Bestselling Author Of Pledged And The Teachers Returns With A Groundbreaking Look At The Pressure To Achieve Faced By America'S Teensin 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 Highstakes Educational Culture Has Spiraled Out Of Control. During The Year Of Her Tenyear Reunion, Robbins Goes Back To Her High School, Where She Follows Hearttuggingly 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 Namebrand College; Taylor, Whose Ambition Threatens Her Popular Girl Status; And The Stealth Overachiever, A Mystery Junior Who Flies Under The Radar.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 Fastpaced Narrative And Fascinating Investigative Journalism, The Overachievers Aims Both To Calm The Admissions Frenzy And To Expose Its Escalating Dangers.