As a professor and youth director, Dan Dumas has seen that young people hold high expectations for themselves. They want their lives to matter, and there is no reason our expectations for them should be any lower than their own.

This book gives practical tools and biblical counsel to middle school and high school readers so that they can make the most of their youth rather than treat it as a waiting room. It covers choosing the right friends, using time and money, purity, work and the habits that carry into adult life. Direct, and written to be read by a teenager rather than about one.