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2010., Hyperion Call No: 921 MURRAY Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Liz Murray, who was homeless at the age of fifteen and had drug-addicted parents, reflects on how she overcame obstacles and eventually attended Harvard University.
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c2010, Hyperion Call No: B Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Liz Murray, who was homeless at the age of fifteen and had drug-addicted parents, reflects on how she overcame obstacles and eventually attended Harvard University.
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c2010., Hyperion Call No: MEMOIR Edition: 1st pbk. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Liz Murray, who was homeless at the age of fifteen and had drug-addicted parents, reflects on how she overcame obstacles and eventually attended Harvard University.
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c2010., Hyperion Call No: Guide B Murray Edition: 1st pbk. ed. Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: The author describes how she struggled as the child of two drug addicts, and was homeless at age fifteen but still managed to graduate from high school in two years, and win a "New York Times" scholarship that took her to Harvard University.
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By Etler, Cyndy[2017], Adolescent, Sourcebooks Fire Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Etler's intense, unforgettable memoir uncovers the lies behind Straight, Inc., a teen rehab facility that was supposed to give teens help. Instead, it gave them hell.
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By Etler, Cyndy[2017], Adolescent, Sourcebooks Fire Call No: Teen Fiction FIC ETL Availability:0 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: At age fourteen, Cyndy Etler had escaped from her violent home only to be reported as a runaway and sent to a drug rehabilitation facility that changed her world. Behind the closed doors of Straight, Inc., the program used bizarre and intimidating methods to treat its patients. In this memoir, Cyndy recounts the living nightmare that she endured for sixteen months at Straight, Inc.
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By Etler, Cyndy[2017]., Adolescent, Sourcebooks Fire Call No: B Etler Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: Memoir of Cyndy Etler about her teenage years spent in Straight, Inc., a drug rehabilitation facility she was sent to after running away from her violent home. Discusses the bizarre and intimidating methods Straight, Inc., used to try to treat its patients, and how Cyndy escaped what she called the facility's living nightmare.
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2018., Adolescent, Graphix, An Imprint of Scholastic Call No: GN KRO Edition: First edition. Availability:5 of 5 At Location(s) Summary Note: "In kindergarten, Jarrett Krosoczka's teacher asks him to draw his family, with a mommy and a daddy. But Jarrett's family is much more complicated than that. His mom is an addict, in and out of rehab, and in and out of Jarrett's life. His father is a mystery -- Jarrett doesn't know where to find him, or even what his name is. Jarrett lives with his grandparents -- two very loud, very loving, very opinionated people who had thought they were through with raising children until Jarrett came along"--
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2018., Juvenile, Graphix Call No: Guide GN 920 Krosoczka Edition: First edition. Availability:6 of 9 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: A graphic novel memoir by author and illustrator Jarrett Krosoczka who describes growing up with an addict mother, a missing father, and two loving, opinionated grandparents who raised him into his teen years. Describes how Krosoczka relied on his art to express himself and to survive the ups and downs of life.
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By Sheff, Nic2009., Juvenile, Atheneum Books for Young Readers Call No: HI-INT B SHE Edition: 1st Atheneum Books for Young Readers pbk. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Sheff relates his personal struggle with drugs and alcohol in this poignant and often disturbing memoir. Paul Michael Garcia is the perfect choice for narrator; his stern and entirely believable voice captures the desolation in Sheff's tale. His reading is wonderfully underplayed, and necessarily so. Garcia becomes Sheff, offering a gritty and raw performance that demonstrates just how dire the circumstances surrounding Sheff's existence really were.
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By Sheff, Nic2009, c2008., Ginee Seo Books/Atheneum Books for Young Readers Call No: MEMOIR Edition: 1st Atheneum Books Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: The author describes his childhood in California, his addiction to crystal meth and heroin at a young age, his relapse after eighteen months of sobriety, and his path to recovery.
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By Sheff, Nicc2007., Juvenile, Atheneum Books for Young Readers Call No: B Sheff Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: The author details his immersion in a world of hardcore drugs, revealing the mental and physical depths of addiction, and the violent relapse one summer in California that forever changed his life, leading him down the road to recovery.
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By Sheff, Nic2012, c2011., Adolescent, Little, Brown Call No: MEMOIR Edition: 1st pbk. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: The author describes his experiences as a patient in a drug-rehabilitation facility and his relapses with drugs and alcohol, and discusses what it is like to be a young person living with addictions in the United States.
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c2013., Spiegel & Grau Call No: MEMOIR Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Presents the memoir of Domenica Ruta and the relationship she had with her drug addict mother.