I just bought my second one of these bags for my 10 year old son. We had the first one for almost 2 years. That may not sound like much and truthfully if it was my bag, I would expect much longer life. But if you have a young boy you know that this bag has had a very hard life! My son has put it through the ringer everyday and it stood up to it really well until last week. The zippers finally went and the handle was getting more and more difficult to get down and it finally began wearing through where he constantly dragged, rubbed, threw, scraped, etc the bag against the ground, concrete steps and walls. The things I saw happen to this bag make me wince (and caused him a few lectures about caring for your things). Plus it was packed full everyday with heavy books and binders.

It holds a lot and has great separate compartments for computer, books, supplies and smaller gadgets like a DS or iPod with a headphone cutout. The wheels held up great. It is a bit heavy so he always rolls it. He has too much stuff to carry it for school anyway.

<a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/High-Sierra-Powerglide-Wheeled-Book-Bag/dp/B007E6GQ6K/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">High Sierra Powerglide Wheeled Book Bag</a>The weak point of this bag is the zipper. I find that to be true of every backpack we have tried in the last 8 years. We have had the new bag 1 day and already the easy pull zipper tab came off (some kind of nylon string hooked to a plastic tab) broke-metal zipper still there. I am hoping the actual zipper will be fine for a while. My son likes it because they have dark, nondescript colors that don't stand out which seems to be the cool thing for middle school. Dare I show him the picture of his first day of preschool with his (yes he picked it out at 3) Dora the Explorer purple fuzzy backpack??

Anyway, we like this bag. My son's words when his 1st one broke-"Can you get the exact same one? It has plenty of room and you can make it pop a wheely."