97 Things to Do Before You Finish High School [Paperback]

Erika Stalder (Author), Steven Jenkins (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 1, 2008

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.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Presents fun and diverse ideas that encourage teens' creative sides."  —Gumbo Teen Magazine

 "Gives concrete examples and lessons that will serve during the high school years and beyond."  —Carolina Parent

"This clever title encourages teens to accomplish tasks that will expand their horizons."  —Nashville Parent

About the Author

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

Erika Stalder is a San Francisco-based writer who has contributed to Wired, Missbehave, Planet, and The Journal of Life Sciences, and worked with the International Museum of Women to produce the Imagining Ourselves anthology. She also currently writes the Dear Erika advice column for ABC Family’s The Secret Life of The American Teen website.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 14 and up
  
• Paperback: 208 pages
• Publisher: Zest Books (May 1, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0979017300
• ISBN-13: 978-0979017308
• Product Dimensions: 6.5 x 6.5 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #56,131 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars 97!!, November 4, 2007

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Carolyn - See all my reviews

This review is from: 97 Things to Do Before You Finish High School (Paperback)

I absolutely love this book. I'm a senior in high school and havent satisfied much besides spening a lot of money on off campus lunch. This book goes into dept of things I should do from taking roadtrips, holding a fashion show, trying martial arts and cooking and tells me how to do it easily. I'm so excited to plan my senior school road trip and this book will tell me exactly how!! It covers many different categories and genres so there is something for everybody!

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Inappropriate advice in some sections, December 16, 2011

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This review is from: 97 Things to Do Before You Finish High School (Paperback)

Bought this for my niece after reading all the reviews. Sounded good natured and innocent. I read through it when it came and found some of the ideas to be inappropriate, ESPECIALLY for young girls! I would never tell my little girl that she should skinny dip, throw a drinking party when her parents are gone, condone having sex and learning about Planned Parenthood...etc. Needless to say I did some editing and the remaining ideas were cute and appropriate. They included family values, volunteering, learning good habits...etc. I was a bit disappointed that NONE of the 12 reviews for this book had even mentioned this stuff!

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars All High Schoolers should read this!, December 21, 2007

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Allison Frenzel "Frendizzle" (Santa Rosa, CA) - See all my reviews
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97 things to do before you finish high school

By Cindy

This book provides eye opening information which shows you how to prepare your self for a personal development like. How to create a journal, how to look closely to a work of art this kind of things relate to you and teaches you how to improve or prepare your self for the future. These are things that most people don't think about in high school.

This book covers all the most significant things that you can relate, to and it is really interesting how things have there own way of teaching. Young people would really appreciate reading this book because everything would make sense and it will be way easier to try to do something when you have confidence.

Before I even read this book I never thought I would ever do something that could embarrassed me, like confess to a crush. Come on, a girl like me would never ask a guy out, but now that I have read that section in the book and learned me that every one should have confidence and trust them self's. You really don't loose anything and you'll get it over with. Buy this book! It is a great guide for teenagers.