A in-depth exploration of the neuroscience of the developing adolescent brain. I'd recommend it for anyone who spends significant time with adolescents - whether in a parental role, work role or something else.

**and now for the part of the review where I just put quotes I liked**


"This calls into question the claim made by some education policy-makers that entry tests for selective schools that include non-verbal reasoning assess the true potential of every child, which is fixed and possibly innate. On the contrary, this is a skill that can readily be trained and improved." (95)

"Thus it seems that the way the brain enables us to pay attention to a non-salient object in the presence of something attention-grabbing but irrelevant is still undergoing development between adolescence and adulthood. This fits eith the possibility that adolescents find it challenging to focus on a task at hand in the presence of emotionally salient and distracting stimuli..." (131)