This book provides, with humor and flexibility, a year-long program to promote academic excellence and positive self-concepts in high school students (it's adaptable to lower grades as well). Each section is a complete curriculum, for classroom, library or home. The chapters are arranged in five broad areas: Library Literacy (basic skills); Study Skills, or S.O.S. (academic proficiency); Reading (all subjects); Research (or, systematic investigations); and Critical Thinking, aimed at the lifelong library user.