Freshman Reading/First Year Experience
Suggested titles for college common book programs as part of the Freshman First Year Experience
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Growing Up on Methamphetamines
By: Nic Sheff
This edition: eBook, 352 pages
Publication date: May 12, 2009
Ages: above 15
Nic Sheff was drunk for the first time at age eleven. In the years that followed, he would regularly smoke pot, do cocaine and Ecstasy, and develop addictions to crystal meth and heroin. Even so, he felt like he would always...
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Growing Up on Methamphetamines
By: Nic Sheff
This edition: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publication date: January 6, 2009
Ages: above 15
Nic Sheff was drunk for the first time at age eleven. In the years that followed, he would regularly smoke pot, do cocaine and Ecstasy, and develop addictions to crystal meth and heroin. Even so, he felt like he would always...
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Growing Up on Methamphetamines
By: Nic Sheff
This edition: Hardcover, 336 pages
Publication date: February 19, 2008
Ages: above 15
Nic Sheff was drunk for the first time at age eleven. In the years that followed, he would regularly smoke pot, do cocaine and Ecstasy, and develop addictions to crystal meth and heroin. Even so, he felt like he would always...
4.
Three Little Words
A Memoir
By: Ashley Rhodes-Courter
This edition: Hardcover, 320 pages
Publication date: January 8, 2008
Ages: above 14
"Sunshine, you're my baby and I'm your only mother. You must mind the one taking care of you, but she's not your mama." Ashley Rhodes-Courter spent nine years of her life in fourteen different foster homes, living by those...
5.
Copper Sun
By: Sharon M. Draper
Cover By: Kamil Vojnar and Polly Kanevsky
This edition: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publication date: January 1, 2008
Ages: above 14
Stolen from her village, sold to the highest bidder,fifteen-year-old Amari has only one thing left of her own -- hope.Amari's life was once perfect. Engaged to the handsomest man in her tribe, adored by her family, and living...
Other Formats: Hardcover
6.
Warriors Don't Cry
By: Melba Pattillo Beals
This edition: Mass Market Paperback, 240 pages
Publication date: July 24, 2007
Ages: above 12
An innocent teenager.An unexpected hero.In 1957, Melba Pattillo turned sixteen. That was also the year she became a warrior on the front lines of a civil rights firestorm. Following the landmark 1954 Supreme Court ruling,...
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Copper Sun
By: Sharon M. Draper
Cover By: Kamil Vojnar and Polly Kanevsky
This edition: Hardcover, 320 pages
Publication date: January 3, 2006
Ages: above 14
Stolen from her village, sold to the highest bidder,fifteen-year-old Amari has only one thing left of her own -- hope.Amari's life was once perfect. Engaged to the handsomest man in her tribe, adored by her family, and living...
Other Formats: Trade Paperback
