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What It Takes to Pull Me Through: Why Teenagers Get in Trouble and How Four of Them Got Out
by Marcus, David L
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0618145451
- ISBN 13
- 9780618145454
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2005. Signed and inscribed by author on half title page First edition with full number line 8vo size hardcover with dust jacket; 338 pages From jacket: "Millions of parents struggle to grasp what goes on in their kids heads, on their computers, and among their friends. (The author) wrestled with similar questions while reporting on the maze of pressures American teenagers now face - a resurgent drug culture, proliferating temptations and threats on-line, skyrocketing suicide rates (three times higher than in the 1960s.) To find answers, (the author) gained unfettered access to students, staff and parents at the Academy at Swift River in Western Massachusetts. The kids who come to swift river have already headed down some of the dangers paths that all parents fear their children may take...the school helps trouble teenagers regain emotional health." Wear to jacket; author's contact info stamp is on fep and title page. . Signed by Author. First. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Synopsis
The Academy at Swift River specializes in one of the toughest tasks a school can undertake: helping teenagers in crisis regain their bearings. During a fourteen-month academic term at the school, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David L. Marcus witnesses the intense process that turns these kids around. In his time on campus, Marcus gets to know a diverse and remarkable group of teenagers: a former straight-A student reeling from the death of her mother, a teachers' son grappling with anger over being adopted, a southern girl immersed in drug abuse and unsafe sex, and a boy from Queens overwhelmed by depression. Granted full access to the Swift River proceednigs, Marcus is given the rare chance to observe the students' struggles and see their transformations from the inside. In What It Takes to Pull Me Through, he charts a path to redemption that any teen, any parent, can follow.
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- Title
- What It Takes to Pull Me Through: Why Teenagers Get in Trouble and How Four of Them Got Out
- Author
- Marcus, David L
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- First
- ISBN 10
- 0618145451
- ISBN 13
- 9780618145454
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 2005
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- signed; autographed; First Edition; 1st Edition; Problem kids; Troubled children; Academy at Swift River; counselling; Therapeutic schools; Massachusetts;
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- Parenting; Signed; First Editions;
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