School Made Easier: A Kid's Guide to Study Strategies and Anxiety-Busting Tools
Teens struggle with balancing social lives with school requirements, and many generate high levels of stress as they attempt to score well on each test or assignment. To cope, students need to learn time management skills to juggle the various elements of their lives. Enter Moss and DeLuca-Acconi, who cover most of the same ground as seen in Lesley Schwartz Martin’s Make the Grade (2013) but in a format more appealing to its intended audience. Incorporating student questions and practical examples, the authors lead readers through helpful “mind games,” tips on organization, and necessary skills for the day of the big test. At the beginning of each chapter, checklists with positive reinforcement encourage readers to delve further. The use of slick pages, color headings, quotation bubbles, and charts will hook students, though the lack of an index might frustrate them. Both counselors and school librarians should consider adding this book to their collections. Grades 7-10. --J. B. Petty--This text refers to theHardcoveredition.