What It Takes to Pull Me Through - Why Teenagers Get in Trouble and How Four of Them Got Out (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	HarperPaperbacks
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	September 2006
First published:	September 2006
Authors:	David L. Marcus
Dimensions:	209 x 140 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	352
ISBN-13:	978-0-618-77202-5
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Child & developmental psychology Books > Medicine > Other branches of medicine > Clinical psychology > Psychotherapy Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social groups & communities > Age groups > Adolescents Books > Health, Home & Family > Family & health > Advice on parenting > Child care & upbringing > Adolescent children Promotions
LSN:	0-618-77202-2
Barcode:	9780618772025

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