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Summary Of The Overachievers By Alexandra Robbins
In The Overachievers, written by Alexandra Robbins, the speaker is the New York Times bestseller author herself, who is known in the expertise of being a successful journalist and author, telling the stories of overachieving students and the stressful hardships they experience along with their frustrating journey as they transition into the college atmosphere. Robbins would have the authority as the writer on the subject of the lives of overachieving students because she was once a student that attended Walt Whitman High
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