Zero to 60 by Michael A. Tompkins and Chloe Douglass - NO

Zero to 60 by Michael A. Tompkins and Chloe Douglass, 253 pages. NON FICTION. Magination Press, 2020. $16

Language: G (0 swears, 0 ‘f’); Mature Content: PG (teen issues, not graphic; Violence: G 

BUYING ADVISORY: MS - NOT RECOMMENDED 

AUDIENCE APPEAL: LOW

Michael A. Tompkins attempts to make an appealing emotional discussion book to teenagers. Talking of anger, stress and anxiety and how to prevent yourself from getting sucked into the world. This book also teaches how to cope with such emotions. Filled with experiences from teens to teens, this book pulls out all the stops. Although it maybe tailored to teenagers in general, the language can be for preadolescent people as well. 

Going into this book, I believed that it would be a more in depth novel about people's emotions and how their perception can be effected by such feelings. (boy oh boy was I wrong). This book isn't in depth, boring and well a little condescending. Everything seems so basic level understanding and not well tailored to teens. For me personally, this book hardly seems well thought out in helping me personally with my anger.

 Student Reviewer: Kenzie Hoehne