What It Takes to Pull Me Through: Why Teenagers Get in Trouble and How Four of Them Got OutThe Academy at Swift River specializes in one of the toughest tasks a school can undertake: helping teenagers in crisis regain their bearings. During a fourteen month academic term at the school, the Pulitzer Prize winning journalist David L. Marcus witnesses the intense process that turns these kids around. In his time on campus, Marcus gets to know a diverse and remarkable group of teenagers: a former straight A student reeling from the death of her