The REAL High School Survival Guide is Michael Pollick’s hilariously honest tour through the hallways, homerooms, and hormonal minefields of American high school. In this collection of sharp, nostalgic humor essays, Pollick revisits the teachers who terrified us, the friends who saved us, the crushes that scrambled our brains, and the unwritten rules that every teenager somehow knew. It’s part memoir, part mischief, and part field manual for anyone who ever tried to survive adolescence with dignity intact — and failed gloriously.