What It Takes to Pull Me Through: Why Teenagers Get in Trouble and How Four of Them Got OutHoughton Mifflin Harcourt, 2006 M09 5 - 352 pages 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. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
TRUTHS AND HALFTRUTHS | 7 |
I Hate You Dad | 9 |
Psychological Scavenger Hunt | 18 |
Back to Basics | 33 |
The Counselor and the Teacher | 44 |
Mary Alice Every Parents Worst Nightmare | 51 |
Bianca I Cant Do Anything Right | 56 |
A Case of the FuckIts | 185 |
Real Friends | 195 |
Return to Innocence | 201 |
FORGIVENESS | 211 |
This Is Not a Test This Is Your Life | 213 |
More Than Labels | 223 |
I Love That Kid | 229 |
Laugh Now Cry Later | 237 |
Stoners Wiggers and Wannabes | 66 |
Yall Had No Clue | 76 |
Tyrone Lonely Once Again | 83 |
Back to Pattern | 92 |
SHAMES AND BLAMES | 101 |
PhD in Manipulation | 103 |
DJ The Bad Thing That Happened to Good People | 113 |
Storming Norming and Forming | 121 |
Im Angry at Myself for Being Born | 129 |
Falling in Love Again | 136 |
Winter of the Underground | 150 |
Disclosures | 159 |
Making Connections | 167 |
Dating Dumping and DryHumping | 178 |
Lifes a Permanent Party | 245 |
Pura Vida | 254 |
I Cant Go Through This Again | 262 |
Your Child Is Not Fixed | 272 |
Conquering Heroes | 283 |
You Have Your Little Girl Back | 291 |
So Many Fake People in the Real World | 298 |
Memo to Parents | 311 |
Authors Note | 318 |
Acknowledgments | 322 |
Sources | 325 |
Bibliography | 337 |
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