The Road to Whatever: Middle Class Culture and the Crisis of Adolescence – By Elliott Currie – In this groundbreaking book, acclaimed sociologist and Pulitzer Prize finalist Elliott Currie draws on years of interviews to offer a profound investigation of what has gone wrong for so many “mainstream” American adolescents. Rejecting such […]
The Game: A Return to the Elan School – By Wayne Kernochan – Book Description: The Game: A Return to the Elan School, is the fifth book of my memoir series, and the story of the first book in this series, A Life Gone Awry: My Story of the Elan School. This book […]
The Dozier School for Boys: Forensics, Survivors, and a Painful Past – By Elizabeth Murray – Some true crimes reveal themselves in bits and pieces over time. One such case is the Florida School for Boys, a.k.a. the Dozier School, a place where―rather than reforming the children in their care―school officials tortured, raped, […]
The Discarded Ones: A Novel Based on a True Story – By James Tipper – They had many names: Cedu School, Rocky Mountain Academy, and Cascade School. Some called them cults, some said the schools saved their lives. But, none of them were free to leave. Charlie Hoff was there. Soon you will […]
The Dead Inside: A True Story – By Cyndy Etler – I never was a badass. Or a slut, a junkie, or a stoner, like they told me I was. I was just a kid looking for something good, something that felt like love. I was a wannabe in a Levi’s jean jacket. […]
Teens in Crisis: How the Industry Serving Struggling Teens Helps and Hurts Our Kids – By Frederic G. Reamer and Deborah H. Siegel – In recent years a dizzying array of programs has emerged to meet the needs of struggling teens and their families-wilderness therapy programs, therapeutic boarding schools, alternative schools, mentoring and […]
Straightling – By Cyndy Etler – She never was a badass. Or a slut, a junkie, or a stoner, like they told her she was. She was just a kid looking for something good, something that felt like love. Anybody could see that, except her mother. And the Straightlings. At 13, Cyndy ran […]
Stolen: A Memoir – At fifteen, Elizabeth Gilpin was an honor student, a state-ranked swimmer and a rising soccer star, but behind closed doors her undiagnosed depression was wreaking havoc on her life. Growing angrier by the day, she began skipping practices and drinking to excess. At a loss, her parents turned […]
Stolen Dignity: An Expose of the Troubled Teen Industry – By Andy Hirschfeld – Kids, young kids were force fed raw chicken, strip searched and kidnapped— all under the guise of therapy and it’s 100 % legal. There is an entire industry built on abusing teens that you would not believe happens right […]
Saving Alex: When I Was Fifteen I Told My Mormon Parents I Was Gay, and That’s When My Nightmare Began – By Alex Cooper, Joanna Brooks – For eight harrowing months, Alex was held captive in an unlicensed “residential treatment program” modeled on the many “therapeutic” boot camps scattered across Utah. Alex was […]
