97 Things to Do Before You Finish High School

  • Interest Level: Grade 8 - Grade 12
  • Reading Level: Grade 8

Being in high school is about a lot more than going to high school.

It’s about discovering new places, new hobbies, and new people—and opening your eyes to the world. This book is about the stuff they don’t teach you in high school, like how to host a film festival, plan your first road trip, make a podcast, or write a manifesto. Want to make a time capsule? Spend a day in silence? Learn how to make beats like a DJ? Or shut down your house party before the police do?

Whatever your creative, social, or academic inclinations, you’ll find 97 ways on these pages to amuse, educate, and interest yourself, and your friends. Because your life doesn’t stop at 3pm each day—it just gets started.

“Make your high school experience the best possible with this brilliant book.” –Justine Magazine

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Interest Level Grade 8 - Grade 12
Reading Level Grade 8
Genre Young Adult
Category 5 Kinds of Nonfiction, 5KN: Active Nonfiction, 5KN: Browseable Nonfiction
Copyright 2008
Publisher Lerner Publishing Group
Imprint Zest Books ™
Language English
Number of Pages 208
Publication Date 2008-01-01
Text Type Procedural
BISACS YAN028000, YAN021000, YAN049000
Dewey 646.700835
Dimensions 6.5 x 6.5
Features Activities, Author/Illustrator biography, Awards, Introductory note, and Sidebars

Author: Steven Jenkins

Steven Jenkins is a San Francisco-based cultural critic whose writings on film, music, art, and literature appear in national periodicals, exhibition catalogues, and artist monographs. He is the author of City Slivers and Fresh Kills: The Films of Gordon Matta-Clark and Model Culture: James Casebere, Photographs 1975-1996.

Author: Erika Stalder

Erika Stalder is an author, advice columnist, and blogger who writes about teen life, lust, and adventures behind the wheel. She’s all about helping teen girls find and develop their passions so they can become happy, fulfilled, kick-ass women. She’s also all about bacon. Mmmm, bacon.

Awards

  • National Parenting Publications Award Honor, Commended, 2007
  • YALSA Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers Nominee, Nominated, 2007