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

Name: What It Takes to Pull Me Through Why Teenagers Get in Trouble and How Four of Them Got Out
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ISBN: 9780618772025

ISBN-10: 0618772022

ISBN-13: 9780618772025

Edition: 2005

Authors: David L. Marcus

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Millions of parents struggle to grasp what goes on in their kids" heads, on their computers, and among their friends. As an education correspondent for U.S. News he discovered astonishing crises and surprising truths. He focuses on four remarkable kids who run the demographic gamut: a southern girl whose privileges cannot save her from sinking into drug abuse and unsafe sex; the self-destructive son of teachers grappling with his anger about being adopted; a black kid from a tough New York neighborhood who is silenced by consuming depression; and a once high-achieving Florida girl broken by the death of her mother.While uncovering what drove these kids and their parents to Swift River,…

Book details

List price: $19.99
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 9/5/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

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.



Contents Prologue


Summer Vacation


Introduction



Truths and Half-Truths



"I Hate You, Dad"



Psychological Scavenger Hunt



Back to Basics



The Counselor and the Teacher



Mary Alice: "Every Parent's Worst Nightmare"



Bianca: "I Can't Do Anything Right"



Stoners, Wiggers, and Wanna-bes



"Y'all Had No Clue"



Tyrone: "Lonely Once Again"



Back to Pattern



Shames and Blames



Ph.D. in Manipulation



D.J.: "The Bad Thing That Happened to Good People"



Storming, Norming, and Forming



"I'm Angry at Myself for Being Born"



Falling in Love Again



Winter of the Underground



Disclosures



Making Connections



Dating, Dumping, and Dry-Humping



A Case of the "Fuck-Its"



Real Friends



Return to Innocence



Forgiveness



"This Is Not a Test, This Is Your Life"



More Than Labels



"I Love That Kid"



"Laugh Now, Cry Later"



Life's a Permanent Party



Pura Vida



"I Can't Go Through This Again"



"Your Child Is Not Fixed"



Conquering Heroes



"You Have Your Little Girl Back"


Epilogue: "So Many Fake People in the Real World"


Memo to Parents


Author's Note


Acknowledgments


Sources


Bibliography