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Rising Class: How Three First-Generation College Students Conquered Their First Year

by Jennifer Miller

Three first-generation paths through a year of change

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Three first-generation paths through a year of change

Jennifer Miller’s narrative nonfiction brings together the first-year experiences of Briani, Conner, and Jacklynn, who attend colleges ranging from an Ivy League school to a community college. Their stories place the demands of college alongside responsibilities to family, with the COVID-19 pandemic disrupting the spring semester. The book’s scope connects individual challenges, successes, and hopes to the broader transition into college as a first-generation student. Its central subjects include education, family ties, new beginnings, and perseverance during an unusually unsettled year.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Teens and young adults curious about the first-year college experience.
  • Readers interested in first-generation students’ experiences across different kinds of colleges.
  • Those exploring how college responsibilities intersect with family commitments and major disruption.

Themes

First-generation college experienceFamily responsibilitiesComing of agePerseveranceThe COVID-19 pandemic

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Book overview

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 not only experience 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, this nonfiction book follows these students' challenges, successes, and dreams as they tackle their first year of college and juggle responsibilities to their families back home.

Eye-opening and poignant, Jennifer Miller writes a narrative nonfiction story that speaks to new beginnings, coming of age, and perseverance.

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