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First Chance: How Kids with Nothing Can Change Everything

Name: First Chance: How Kids with Nothing Can Change Everything
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SKU: 9780252042997
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First Chance: How Kids with Nothing Can Change Everything

Hardcover – June 16, 2019

by Robert Owen Carr (Author), Dirk Johnson (Author)

**Book Condition---USED, Like New mostly medium wear/scratches on dust jacket. Former Bookstore display shelf copy***

First Chance: How Kids with Nothing Can Change Everything examines the remarkable triumphs of young people considered least likely to attain a college degree: those who have experienced foster care (three percent graduation rate) or the incarceration of a parent, especially a mother (two percent graduation rate). Some 2.7 million schoolchildren have experienced parental incarceration, while nearly 500,000 are declared wards of the state annually. Yet their experiences receive little attention. The young people themselves are frequently hesitant to talk about their lives, burdened with a sense of shame, even though they are blameless.

Philanthropist and author Robert O. Carr has turned the focus of his college scholarship program, Give Something Back, on these often forgotten and neglected kids. As their stories reveal, they have the smarts and drive to compete with peers from more comfortable backgrounds. The author argues that these young people can draw on their special and painful insights to forge powerful change, provided society acknowledges them—and extends a first chance.

Review

”An inspiring message of resilience, hope and triumph for kids raised with painful adversities.”—Hoda Kotb, co-anchor, NBC Today

”For those facing the longest odds, First Chance is a riveting journey from troubled homes to college classrooms.”—Robin McGraw, New York Times bestselling author

About the Author

Robert Owen Carr is the founder and CEO of Beyond and the founder of Give Something Back, a college scholarship and mentoring program. He is the author of Through the Fires: An American Story of Turbulence, Business Triumph and Giving Back and Working Class to College: The Promise and Peril Facing Blue-Collar America. Dirk Johnson is a former bureau chief for the New York Times and Newsweek magazine. His books include Biting the Dust: The Wild Ride and Dark Romance of the Rodeo Cowboy and The American West and Meth: America's Home-Cooked Menace.

Product details

Hardcover: 224 pages
Publisher: GSBF Media; 1st edition (June 16, 2019)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0252042999
ISBN-13: 9780252042997
Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 1.1 x 8.5 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds

First Chance: How Kids with Nothing Can Change Everything

First Chance: How Kids with Nothing Can Change Everything

Hardcover – June 16, 2019

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