This is a story about joining forces and beating the odds. A story about changing your life, and the lives of those you love most... together.
1. Dreaming Big
2. Home
3. Ma
4. Common Ground
5. Caged
6. A Big Break
7. Hope
George on Peer Pressure
8. Summer Odyssey
9. Earth Angel
10. A Different World
Rameck on Giving Back
11. Rap
12. Lovesick
13. Access Med
14. Old Ties
15. D.W.B.
16. Becoming Doctors
Sam on Perseverance
17. Graduation
18. Goodbye
19. Home Again
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Classroom-based guides appropriate for schools and colleges provide pre-reading and classroom activities, discussion questions connected to the curriculum, further reading, and resources.
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This is a story about joining forces and beating the odds. A story about changing your life, and the lives of those you love most... together.
1. Dreaming Big
2. Home
3. Ma
4. Common Ground
5. Caged
6. A Big Break
7. Hope
George on Peer Pressure
8. Summer Odyssey
9. Earth Angel
10. A Different World
Rameck on Giving Back
11. Rap
12. Lovesick
13. Access Med
14. Old Ties
15. D.W.B.
16. Becoming Doctors
Sam on Perseverance
17. Graduation
18. Goodbye
19. Home Again
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Classroom-based guides appropriate for schools and colleges provide pre-reading and classroom activities, discussion questions connected to the curriculum, further reading, and resources.
(Please note: the guide displayed here is the most recently uploaded version; while unlikely, any page citation discrepancies between the guide and book is likely due to pagination differences between a book’s different formats.)
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