The Overachievers Book Report

In the book, The Overachievers by Alexandra Robbins, the author revolves predominantly around multiple students at Whitman high school, though it also introduces other people as the story progresses. In this work of literature, Robbins uses the lives of many students to portray the life of “overachievers,” students who pride themselves in working countless hours through a laundry list of extracurriculars and the “intensifying pressures to succeed and the drive of overachievers culture” (15). Through this book, the reader can see the focus of the work is on how the pressure to succeed in school has grown tremendously and how toxic it can be for students as well as family members involved.
Through the manner in which she separated her book into