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2022., Adolescent, Penguin Press Call No: HI-INT B NIE Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "A brilliant, funny, generation-defining memoir about the double bind of crafting perfect adversity narratives for highly selective institutions, while fumbling through the far murkier reality of actual life in foster care and inpatient mental health treatment. As a child, Emi Nietfeld was caught between a hoarder mother who got her put on antipsychotic medication, but was also the only person to believe she was exceptional, and a state system exemplified by a foster mom who tried to ban her art history flash cards because they had naked pictures (of Michelangelo's David). Even after wresting free of grim inpatient mental health institutions and getting into a prestigious boarding school, Emi scrambled for places to sleep during breaks. Realizing that her path to true independence lay in reinventing herself as a talented overcomer deserving of a full ride, she became obsessed with college admissions. While taking on the sad challenge of presenting herself as resilient to gain authorities' approval, Emi lived the untidy version of actual adversity at the same time--literally drafting her Common App statement while living out of her '92 Corolla. She found herself 'trading my past for my future' in college admissions essays and scholarship applications, in an extreme example of the immense pressure on teenagers from all backgrounds to build the foundations of their entire lives. Emi's story is a harsh illumination of the near-impossible challenge set by societal expectations of coming from nothing, the brokenness of our child welfare system, and the reality that congratulatory letters from top schools couldn't keep her safe--as she found when she was raped while on a trip following her Harvard admission. Though Emi learns that entering the Ivy League, working in Big Tech, and living in a fancy apartment doesn't mean her life turns into gold, her reflections on her unlikely history, and her journey in confronting trauma and injustice, hold powerful lessons. Candid and frequently harrowing, with a ribbon of dark humor, Acceptance is a stunning human story and an invaluable view of the actual cost of upward mobility"--Provided by the publisher.
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p2001., Recorded Books Call No: PA 921 PELZER Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Dave Pelzer's story is the story of a child brutally beaten and starved by his emotionally unstable, alcoholic mother: a mother who played torturous, unpredictable games -- games that left one of her three sons nearly dead. Dave had to learn how to play his mother's games in order to survive because she no longer considered him a son, but a slave, and no longer a boy but an 'it'.
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c1995., Health Communications Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Tells the story of a child's abuse at the hands of his alcoholic mother.
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c1995., Health Communications Call No: B Pelzer Availability:3 of 3 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: David Pelzer, victim of one of the worst child abuse cases in the history of California, tells the story of how he survived his mother's brutality and triumphed over his past.
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1995., Health Communications Call No: 921 PELZER Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: David Pelzer, victim of one of the worst child abuse cases in the history of California, tells the story of how he survived his mother's brutality and triumphed over his past.
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c1995., Health Communications Call No: 92 Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: David Pelzer, victim of one of the worst child abuse cases in the history of California, tells the story of how he survived his mother's brutality and triumphed over his past.
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c1995., Health Communications Call No: MEMOIR Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: David Pelzer, victim of one of the worst child abuse cases in the history of California, tells the story of how he survived his mother's brutality and triumphed over his past.
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c1995, Health Communications Call No: 92 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: David Pelzer, victim of one of the worst child abuse cases in the history of California, tells the story of how he survived his mother's brutality and triumphed over his past.
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-- True story of a modern-day child slave[2014], Adolescent, Simon & Schuster BFYR Call No: Global Studies Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: An autobiography of Shyima Hall, who at the age of eight, was sold by her Eygptian parents into domestic slavery.
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-- True story of a modern-day child slave[2014]., Simon & Schuster BFYR Call No: MEMOIR Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: An autobiography of Shyima Hall, who at the age of eight, was sold by her Eygptian parents into domestic slavery.
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-- True story of a modern-day child slave[2014], Adolescent, Simon & Schuster BFYR Call No: 921 HALL Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: An autobiography of Shyima Hall, who at the age of eight, was sold by her Eygptian parents into domestic slavery.
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-- True story of a modern-day child slave[2014], Adolescent, Simon & Schuster BFYR Call No: B Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: An autobiography of Shyima Hall, who at the age of eight, was sold by her Eygptian parents into domestic slavery.
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c1997., Health Communications Call No: B Pelzer Availability:5 of 5 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: The author tells of his experiences in five foster homes and juvenile detention, after he was taken away from his abusive mother and alcoholic father, and discusses how he made it into the Air Force, and found love and contentment in his life.
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c1997., Health Communications Call No: B Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: The author tells of his experiences in five foster homes and juvenile detention, after he was taken away from his abusive mother and alcoholic father, and discusses how he made it into the Air Force, and found love and contentment in his life.
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c1997., Health Communications Call No: Biography NF PEL Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: The author tells of his experiences in five foster homes and juvenile detention, after he was taken away from his abusive mother and alcoholic father, and discusses how he made it into the Air Force, and found love and contentment in his life.
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c1997., Health Communications Call No: MEMOIR Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: The author tells of his experiences in five foster homes and juvenile detention, after he was taken away from his abusive mother and alcoholic father, and discusses how he made it into the Air Force, and found love and contentment in his life.
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[2000], c1999., Plume Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: The final entry in a trilogy of memoirs in which Dave Pelzer, brutally abused as a child, discusses the struggles he faced as an adult, and his determination to have a meaningful life.
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[2000], c1999., Plume Call No: 921 PELZER Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: The final entry in a trilogy of memoirs in which Dave Pelzer, brutally abused as a child, discusses the struggles he faced as an adult, and his determination to have a meaningful life.
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[2000], c1999., Penguin Call No: B Pelzer Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: The final entry in a trilogy of memoirs in which Dave Pelzer, brutally abused as a child, discusses the struggles he faced as an adult, and his determination to have a meaningful life.
