Rising Class Spiral-Bound | 2023-03-28

Jennifer Miller

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This eye-opening YA narrative nonfiction follows three first-generation college students as they navigate their first year--and ultimately a global pandemic.

Making it through the first year of college is tough. What makes it even tougher is being the first in your family to do so. Who can you turn to when you need advice?

Rising Class follows three first-generation freshmen, Briani, Conner, and Jacklynn, as they experience no only their first semester of college, but the COVID-19 pandemic that turned their spring semester upside down. From life in the Ivy League to classes at a community college, readers follow these students' challenges, successes, and dreams as they tackle their first year of college and juggle responsibilities to their families back home.

Jennifer Miller writes a compelling eye-opening, and poignant true story that speaks to new beginnings, coming-of-age, and perseverance.

Publisher: Macmillan
Original Binding: Hardcover with dust jacket
Pages: 352 pages
ISBN-10: 0374313571
Item Weight: 0.9 lbs
Dimensions: 5.8 x 1.2 x 8.5 inches
Jennifer Miller is the author of four critically acclaimed books, Inheriting the Holy Land, The Year of the Gadfly, The Heart You Carry Home, and Mr. Nice Guy. She is a regular contributor to The New York Times and The Washington Post, and has written extensively on education, mental health, and, about disenfranchised communities, including military veterans, Native Americans, and the rural working class. She has taught undergraduates and graduate writing students at Columbia University and has been a thesis adviser at both the Columbia School of the Arts and the Journalism School. byjennifermiller.com