I loved the easy to use tools for teens in this book to help manage their anger and find ways to cope with their volatile feelings. The tools were up to date and connected to how a teen thinks and works, using items like their phones to keep the anger management skills relatable. As a parent I loved the insight into the teenage brain and the opportunity to work with my teens applying these new skills. This is a go to book for any parent wanting to help their teen navigate the array of emotions this age group is dealing with.

Honest and in-depth advice for reaching your full potential. This advice is presented in easy to follow language that can be broken up and applied in pieces at a time.

Powerful book with self-help tips on how anyone - children, teens, and even adults - can control their heated emotions.

As a Kindergarten teacher, I have even used some of these techniques with my class. If we begin sharing tools such as this book, eventually we will have a society where mindfulness is the norm.

Great examples included.

As a social worker, these instant help solution series books always serve as a great resource for working with teens. This a modern resource for teens who struggle with anger management. I would not say this is a good resource for individuals with severe anger control problems. However, it provides some practical resources that a typical teen today would be willing to try. For example, using their phone as meditation device. The book also includes anecdotes from real-life teens, and teens are bound to see themselves in these stories.

Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for providing this ARC in exchange for my honest review.

Where was this book when I was a kid? The best I got from adults when the status quo made me angry was: if you don;t like the way things are, work with the organization, etc..., and change it from within. Useful to a degree, but for most everyday situations, worthless. This book walks teens through their feelings and helps them deal with every day conflicts in their lives. I personally think it's only hormones and they eventually outgrow it, however, they need to learn how to control and channel their emotions, especially anger, to useful ends. Lashing out is just futile unless it brings positive change. This book is worth a look and may prove it's worth. Counselors, parents, teachers, anyone who works with this age group may want to take a peek at it and use it with the kids.

I picked up this book because I thought it was going to be about social justice and activism -- teaching teens how to use their strong feelings about social issues and taking action. After all, the cover features a young woman with her back turned, fist raised, implying social activism. The book, however, opens with a visual of the Hulk. And it turns out to be mostly about mindfulness and learning to control everyday sorts of anger along the lines of family disputes, friend fights, school pressures, etc. There’s nothing wrong with that of course, but it just wasn’t what I expected. Although various famous activist teens are presented as examples, the tips on how to turn strong emotions into something socially beneficial doesn’t come until the very end. There were a couple other things that didn’t cut it for me. Boys and girls experience anger differently and my first impression is that the book is really more boy oriented. A lot of the examples including those from the author’s own experiences are from a boy perspective. Later on, there was a questionable example about a girl who was struggling with developing physically earlier than her peers. “...that led to lots of attention from boys, as well as envious nastiness from a number of girls.” Whoa, so the attention from boys is if not welcome then appropriate or to be expected? And, the girls must be envious not just dealing with their own uncertainties about puberty? That is a whole lot of presumptuous to say the least. Final recommendations? Either aim this book to boys, change the cover, change some of the examples, and clarify the branding message, or make it gender neutral, change the cover, change some of the examples, and clarify the branding message. I had a hard time getting past these issues and ultimately wasn’t convinced that this offered much that hasn’t already been covered in other mindfulness books. Thank you to NetGalley for providing the ARC to review.

Thank you to NetGalley and New Harbinger Publications for an e-ARC!

From Anger to Action is a wonderful self-help book for teens and young adults that helps them focus and identify their emotions and channel their emotions into healthy coping methods. Its broken down into manageable sections so as not to overwhelm the reader and easy to read and comprehend.

As an adult with anxiety and depression, this self-help guide would have been an amazing tool for me in my younger years to help understand my emotions and develop methods to express these emotions to the adults in my life in a healthy way and build healthy communication.
Wonderful job to the author.

From Anger to Action is a self-help book that uses fun but helpful exercises and age-appropriate topics to reach it's teen audience. I feel the author hopes to transform teens feelings of hopelessness and frustration into usefulness. Notably, it digests the popular mindfulness concept in a manner suitable for teens.

The book does well addressing issues that could be concerning to teens in order to draw their attention, such as cell phone addiction, angry parents and the environment.
The many exercises will keep them engaged, especially 'Tag You're It,' 'Body Map,' and 'M&M game.'

This book would be a helpful tool in counselors' offices and high school libraries, in case a teen wanted to pick it up on her/his own.

Thank for the ARC.