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Provides strategies to help students succeed in school; includes tips on setting up study space, creating the right mood for studying, planning more effectively, and other related topics.

A colorful math handbook for fourth- to sixth-grade students and their parents, which covers basic math concepts such as addition, division, fractions, and story problems as well as number systems, measurement, geometry, money, graphs, statistics and probability, and calculators and computers.

Provides fourth to sixth grade students and their parents with information they need to complete American history assignments.

When Ms. Beasley announces that Eugene McGillicuddy (whose superhero alter ego is Captain Awesome) will be representing the class in the second grade spelling bee along with Meredith Mooney also known as Little Miss Stinky Pinky, Captain Awesome wonders if his spelling superpowers are strong enough to defeat his nemesis?.

Offers twenty-one strategies for high school students wanting to attend college, and focuses on setting up a four year plan, preparing for the SAT's and the ACT's, searching for the right college, and other related topics.

Argues in favor of making study skills instruction part of the standard curriculum at the elementary and secondary school levels; and identifies important study skills and discusses how they should be taught.

Offers advice on succeeding in college, discussing expectations, study habits, preparing for exams, writing papers, taking notes, professors, class scheduling, in-class etiquette, performance evaluation, and grades.

Offers college freshmen practical advice to help them cope with the challenges and confusion they might face during their first year of higher education.

The author offers advice for aspiring readers, emphasizing his point that readers should gravitate toward whatever pulls their interest, whether it be novels by Stephen King or the King James Version of the Bible, and read without shame for their preferences, and discusses silent reading, the pleasures of rereading, electronic reading, and other related topics.

All students need strong study skills in order to succeed in school.

Discusses how to develop research skills, including how to use the public library, how to interview people, how to do computer searches, and how to organize, outline, and write up one's research results.

In a Southern nursing home, an 80-year-old man reads from his diary to his wife, suffering from Alzheimer's.

Contains over fifty activities designed to help students build their reading, writing, and research skills, grouped in the categories of evaluating, sorting, analyzing and synthesizing, and working with information.

Top students and recent graduates from leading colleges and universities offer advice to incoming freshmen on how to handle the ups and downs of the first year of college, discussing homesickness, classes, extra-curricular activities, partying, dating, and other topics.