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The Overachievers: The Secret Lives of Driven KidsThe 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 spiraled out of control. During the year of her ten year reunion, Robbins goes back to her high
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 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.Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Hachette Books
Published: 08/08/2006
ISBN: 9781401302016
Pages: 439
Weight: 1.80lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.20w x 1.40d
Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 05/22/2006 pg. 42
Kirkus Reviews 06/01/2006 pg. 564
Vanity Fair 08/01/2006 pg. 72
Library Journal 07/01/2006 pg. 103
Booklist 07/01/2006 pg. 14
People Weekly 08/14/2006 pg. 51
Entertainment Weekly 08/11/2006 pg. 72
New York Times 08/06/2006 pg. 13
Reference and Research Bk News 11/01/2006 pg. 12
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★★★★★ 4
Fascinating story and great graphics
Format: Hardcover
Fascinating story of a young girl from Nova Scotia working in the oil sands in a male dominated work force. Great graphics.
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Reviewed in the United States on March 9, 2024
★★★★★ 5
Great No Fuss Service
Format: Hardcover
Product as advertised and on time.
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Reviewed in the United States on May 10, 2026
★★★★★ 5
Compelling - Beautifully done
Format: Kindle
I was surprised how much I enjoyed reading this. Ms Beaton has done an amazing job of storytelling.
So thankful for the recommendation from John Warner - The “BibliOracle” of the Chicago Tribune.
Several male members of my family worked in the Tar Sands projects over the last 30 years - mostly on Oil Exploration and the crew management side. But rumors about the rough environment were confirmed in this book. Reading this explains why one important family marriage failed from the “Wild West” behavior that took place there.
As Ms Beaton acknowledged, this work provided important income for those who worked the Tar Sands projects. My family included.
But the harm to the First Nations People and the environment are just terribly, horribly sad.
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Reviewed in the United States on December 17, 2022
★★★★★ 5
A human story of how our society operates
Format: Kindle
There's a lot of terms you could use to describe the themes in this book. Capitalism, patriarchy, settler-colonialism, climate change but the book doesn't need to throw these terms around. It just shows them through the eyes of a person who experienced them. There's also a feeling of "there but by the grace of god go I" having been tempted by the possibility of oil work myself during the Great Recession. The story of how our drive for oil eats at our humanity is vital and helps show the cost of how we've structured our society at a personal level. At times funny, heartwarming, and tragic, a fantastically written and drawn work that I have to highly recommend!
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Reviewed in the United States on February 18, 2023
★★★★★ 5
An amazing, if sometimes dark, memoir of work, solitude, and taking a pragmatic path in life.
Format: Hardcover
What do you do, when your only viable financial prospects are to move to even more remote, cold, dark and desolate land where you are part of a corporate mining operation dredging sands for valuable resources, living onsite in a company owned dormitory? Beaton recalls all this in her memoir of her post-university time, where she was faced with this decision to either live and work the oil sands, or face a life of financial bondage trying to pay back student loans, a decision we see many of her own countrymen face as their only viable means to survive.
If you are familiar with Beaton's comic strip work, you'll see familiar reference to the genesis of it here, but Ducks is a far more serious graphic novel. Both engaging and often times bleak, Ducks gives a wonderful window into the reality of Canada's oil industry, and the humanity of the people, who are nothing more than cogs in a machine, that run it.
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Reviewed in the United States on December 7, 2023