The Overachievers by Alexandra Robbins

The Overachievers by Alexandra Robbins

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.



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.

Alexandra Robbins is the author of four New York Times bestsellers, including Pledged and The Geeks Shall Inherit the World, for which she won the prestigious 2014 John Bartlow Martin Prize for Public Interest Magazine Journalism. She's written for The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, The New York Times, and other publications, and she's appeared on 60 Minutes and The Colbert Report, among others.

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ISBN 13	9781401309022
ISBN 10	140130902X
Title	The Overachievers
Author	Alexandra Robbins
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Hyperion
Year published	2008-02-10
Number of pages	448
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