Parent Recommended Reading List

The Parent-Student Relationship
  • The iConnected Parent: Staying Close to Your Kids in College (and Beyond) While Letting Them Grow Up by Barbara K. Hofer and Abigail Sullivan Moore
  • You're On Your Own (But I'm Here If You Need Me): Mentoring Your Child During the College Years by Marjorie Savage
  • Don't Tell Me What to Do, Just Send Money: The Essential Parenting Guide to College, by Helen E. Johnson and Christine Schelhas-Miller
  • Letting Go: A Parents Guide to Understanding the College Years, by Karen Levin Coburn, Madge Lawrence Treeger, and Harper Collins
  • When Your Kid Goes to College: A Parent's Survival Guide, by Carol Barkin
  • When Kids go to College: A Parent's Guide to Changing Relationships, by Barbara Newman and Philip Newman
The College Experience
  • Guide to the College Experience, by Jacqueline Kiernam MacKay and Wanda Johnson
  • The Naked Roommate: And 107 Other Issues You Might Run Into in College by Harlan Cohen
  • The Everything College Survival Book: All you need to get the most out of college life  by Susan Fitzgerald and J. Lee Peters
  • The Everything College Survival Book: From Social Life To Study Skills--all You Need To Fit Right In (Everything: School and Careers) by Michael Malone
Student Learning and Study Skills
  • Becoming a Master Student: Tools, techniques, hints, ideas, illustration, examples, methods, procedures, processes, skills, resources, and suggestions for success, by Dave Ellis
  • How to Study in College, by Walter Pauk
  • Improving Student Learning Skills, by Martha Maxwell, Ph.D
  • Quantum Learning: Unleashing the Genius in You, by Bobbi DePorter and Mike Hernacki
  • Study Smarter (not harder) and Succeed!, by Cora M. Dzubak, Ph.D.
  • The Power of Mindful Learning, by Ellen J. Langer

Last Modified: August 23, 2011

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