Organizing from the Inside Out for Teens: The Foolproof System for Organizing Your Room, Your Time, and Your Life

Julie Morgenstern. Owl Books (NY), $16 (288pp) ISBN 978-0-8050-6470-4

Another mother/daughter team joins forces in Organizing from the Inside Out for Teens: The Foolproof System for Organizing Your Room, Your Time, and Your Life by Julie Morgenstern with Jessi Morgenstern-Colon. The comprehensive volume opens by assessing the symptoms of disorganization, providing a diagnosis and offering a prescription for change. Subsequent chapters put readers in ""Analyze-Strategize-Attack"" mode as they take on messy bedrooms, backpacks and cluttered social calendars.

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