If you've got "applying to college" in your family's future, here are some engaging books to check out on just this topic:
- "What Colleges Don't Tell You" and "What High Schools Don't Tell You", by Elizabeth Wissner-Gross
- CrazyU by Andrew Ferguson
- How to Be a High School Superstar by Cal Newport
- Admission Possible, by Marjorie Hansen Shaevitz
- Where You Go is Not Who You'll Be, by Frank Bruni
- Admission Matters, by Sally Springer and Jon Reider
- Grown and Flown: From 11th Grade Stress to College Success