High School is hard! These authors share their advice on how to make the most of it. Hear about where to go on the first day, how to prepare for challenging courses, making friends, fitting in (and why you should still be yourself), study guides, and teenage relationships. Learn about Spike Jonze's High School experience too in his moving introduction.

— Simon Traub-Epstein, International Library of Young Authors

From the publisher: “Both a survival guide for high school and a testament to the need for creative expression in schools, this anthology collects the wit and wisdom of 64 senior literature students from Cardozo and Wilson High Schools in Washington, DC. Hailing from diverse backgrounds, students offer practical advice through their personal experiences of the upperclassman's journey. The nuances of fitting in, studying, and survival tactics of high school are relayed through poems, essays, traditional letter-writing, and mixed-genre work.”