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by David L. Marcus

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.


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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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THE GIRL on the phone, a reporter for a high school newspaper, had just read an article about teenagers I'd written for a national newsmagazine.

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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 David L. Marcus
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 352
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Harper Paperbacks, Wilmington, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
  • Date 2006-09-05
  • Features Bibliography, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780618772025 / 0618772022
  • Weight 0.8 lbs (0.36 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.24 x 5.52 x 0.84 in (20.93 x 14.02 x 2.13 cm)
  • Themes
    • Topical: Coming of Age
  • Library of Congress subjects Problem youth - Counseling of, Problem youth - Education
  • Dewey Decimal Code 362.708
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