| What It Takes to Pull Me Through: Why Teenagers Get in Trouble and How Four of Them Got Out Contributor(s): Marcus, David L. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0618772022 ISBN-13: 9780618772025 Publisher: Harper Paperbacks OUR PRICE: $18.99 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2006 Annotation: The author reveals the intense, dramatic process that sets teens in crisis back on the right path at the Academy at Swift River, a school known for combining intensive academics, wilderness survival and group therapy. He charts a path to hope that any kid and parent can take, whether in crisis or not. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Family & Relationships | Life Stages - Teenagers - Psychology | Developmental - Adolescent - Psychology | Psychotherapy - Child & Adolescent |
| Dewey: 362.708 |
| Physical Information: 0.84" H x 5.52" W x 8.24" (0.80 lbs) 352 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - Adolescence/Coming of Age |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Marcus, David L.: - David L. Marcus has been an education writer and foreign correspondent at U.S. News & World Report, the Boston Globe, the Miami Herald, and the Dallas Morning News, where he was the cowinner of a Pulitzer Prize. A former Nieman Fellow at Harvard, he is a contributing editor at U.S. News. He is frequently invited to speak at schools and conferences. |