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Book SynopsisTells the story of five inner-city Hispanic students who start their college applications in the midst of the country's worst recession and of Reality Changers, the program that aims to help them become the first in their families to go college.
Trade Review"The author permits the story to expound itself, showing notable restraint from heavy-handed editorializing or cloying poeticizing. This is a rare achievement: an empirically rigorous history that engages some of the most contentious issues of the day without rancor or agenda. A remarkably sensitive and meticulous investigation of the hurdles to higher education many teens in the U.S. face-and sometimes clear." Kirkus Reviews
Table of ContentsAuthor's Note Cast of Characters Introduction 1. Across the Water 2. Senior Academy 3. Looking for a Home 4. Inventing Reality Changers 5. Dangerous Enough 6. Uphill 7. Doing RC: How It Works 8. Breaking Faith, Breaking Free 9. A Great Small Organization 10. Undocumented 11. Three-Day 12. Essay Crunch 13. Santiago Milagro and the Four-Year Plan 14. Walking on Water 15. Reset 16. The Guy Inside 17. Rocks on Her Legs 18. Stars and Projects and Everyone Else 19. Going the Distance with Eduardo 20. The Guy Outside 21. Getting In 22. The Costs of Their Dreams 23. Reckonings 24. Scholarship Banquet 25. The Evolution of Reality Changers 26. Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index
