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The chosen one, a first-generation Ivy League odyssey, Echo Brown

eng

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Ages 14 & up, Little, Brown and Company

fiction

The chosen one

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Echo Brown

a first-generation Ivy League odyssey

"A YA coming-of-age novel about a first-year, first-generation Black student at Dartmouth College."--, Provided by publisherThere are many watchers and they are always white. That is the first thing Echo notices as she settles into Dartmouth College. Despite graduating high school in Cleveland as valedictorian, she is struggling to keep up in demanding classes. The campus is not the promised rainbow-colored utopia where education lifts every voice. Nor is it a paradise of ideas, an incubator of inclusivity, or even an exciting dating scene. But it might be a portal to different dimensions of time and space-- only accessible if Echo accepts her calling as a Chosen One and takes charge of her future by healing her past. In mesmerizing personal narrative and magical realism, Echo Brown confronts mental illness, grief, racism, love, friendship, ambition, self-worth, and belonging as they steer the fates of first-generation college students on Dartmouth's campus. The Chosen One is an unforgettable coming-of-age story that bravely unpacks the double-edged college transition--as both catalyst for old wounds and a fresh start. -- adapted from jacket

adolescent

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