How to Survive Anything: Shark Attack, Lightning, Embarrassing Parents, Pop Quizzes, and Other Perilous Situations

This tongue-in-cheek (but actually useful!) take on survival from Nat Geo Kids is the perfect guidebook for navigating the tumultuous middle school and teenage years, from shark attacks to the popular crowd and beyond!

Let’s face it. With school pressures, social pressures, parental pressures...being a teenager is tough. But it could be worse! You could be face-to-face with an angry grizzly, or chest-deep in quicksand. Never fear—this survival guide from Nat Geo Kids has the solution! Whether it threatens your life, social status, or both, this outdoor-manual-meets-social-advice guidebook provides practical, witty expertise on preparing for the perilous teen years with confidence and positivity.

You’ll learn facts about different kinds of storms and weather systems, natural phenomena, and dangerous animals alongside preparing for pop quizzes, embarrassing moments, traversing the internet, and so much more. Complete with amusing illustrations and funny, informative side bars, this comprehensive survival guide is a must-have for all preteens and teens, from the trenches of middle school to the jungles of South America and everywhere in between. After all—their lives depend on it.

Rachel Buchholz is the executive editor of National Geographic Kids and National Geographic Little Kids magazines in Washington, DC. In her more than 15 years of editing, she has found some of the world's most amazing stories about animals. She is the author of the Children's Choice–nominated book How to Survive Anything: Shark Attack, Lightning, Embarrassing Parents, Pop Quizzes, and Other Perilous Situations and a former editor at Boys' Life magazine in Dallas.