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Freshman Reading/First Year Experience

Suggested titles for college common book programs as part of the Freshman First Year Experience

The Pregnancy Project
The Pregnancy Project A Memoir By: Gaby Rodriguez
This edition: Hardcover, 224 pages
Publication date: January 17, 2012
Ages: above 14
It started as a school project…but turned into so much more.Growing up, Gaby Rodriguez was often told she would end up a teen mom. After all, her mother and her older sisters had gotten pregnant as teenagers; from an...
Other Formats: eBook
Three Little Words A Memoir By: Ashley Rhodes-Courter
This edition: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publication date: May 5, 2009
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...
Other Formats: eBook, Hardcover
Tweak 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...
Other Formats: eBook, Hardcover
Copper Sun By: Sharon M. Draper
This edition: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publication date: January 1, 2008
Ages: above 14
M. Sindy Felin's National Book Award finalist is in paperback for the first time. Karina has plenty to worry about on the last day of seventh grade: finding three Ds and a C on her report card again, getting laughed at by...
Other Formats: Hardcover

Graduation Day

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It's All Too Much, So Get It Together
It's All Too Much, So Get It Together By: Peter Walsh
Illustrated by: John Hendrix
This edition: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publication date: September 15, 2009
Ages: above 12
Peter Walsh has helped thousands of adults clear mental and physical clutter from their lives, and now he's turning his focus to the unique issues teens face. The stresses of making important decisions and controlling personal...
The Secret to Teen Power By: Paul Harrington
This edition: Hardcover, 192 pages
Publication date: September 15, 2009
Ages: above 12
The Secret is an international phenomenon that has inspired millions of people to live extraordinary lives. The Secret to Teen Power makes that knowledge accessible and relevant to today's teens. It explains the law of...
Other Formats: eBook
In Their Shoes Extraordinary Women Describe Their Amazing Careers By: Deborah Reber
Designed by: Lisa Fyfe
This edition: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
Publication date: April 10, 2007
Ages: above 12
FOLLOW IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF AMAZING WOMEN WHO HAVE THE JOBS OF YOUR DREAMS! Find out what you really want to know about your career choices: What will I do every day? Will I wear Prada or Old Navy? Play with kids on...
Other Formats: eBook