Duane Brown, Dropping Out or Hanging In: What You Should Know Before Dropping Out of School. Chicago: VMG Career Horizons, NTC/Contemporary Publishing Group, 1998. Gives facts about dropping out of school, and then, using workbook format, helps teens look at who they are, what they value, how they make decisions, and what their long-term goals are.

Debra Goldentyer, Dropping Out of School. Austin, TX: Raintree Steck-Vaughn, 1994. Using interviews and case studies, discusses the consequences of dropping out and offers encouraging tips on staying in school and getting back in if a teen has already left.

Gail B. Stewart, The Other America: Teen Dropouts. San Diego, CA: Lucent Books, 1999. Explores the lives of four dropouts, showing what led to their dropping out of school and what they are doing now.

Claudine G. Wirths and Mary Bowman-Kruhm, I Hate School: How to Hang In...