Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines

The story that inspired the major motion picture Beautiful Boy featuring Steve Carell and Timoth e Chalamet.

This New York Times bestselling memoir of a young man's addiction to methamphetamine tells a raw, harrowing, and ultimately hopeful tale of the road from relapse to recovery.

Nic Sheff was drunk for the first time at age eleven. In the years that followed, he would regularly smoke pot, do cocaine and Ecstasy, and develop addictions to crystal meth and heroin. Even so, he felt like he would always be able to quit and put his life together whenever he needed to. It took a violent relapse one summer in California to convince him otherwise. In a voice that is raw and honest, Nic spares no detail in telling us the compelling, heartbreaking, and true story of his relapse and the road to recovery. As we watch Nic plunge into the mental and physical depths of drug addiction, he paints a picture for us of a person at odds with his past, with his family, with his substances, and with himself. It's a harrowing portrait--but not one without hope.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Published: 02/01/2008
ISBN: 9781416913627
Pages: 325
Weight: 0.93lbs
Size: 8.49h x 5.76w x 1.16d

Review Citations: School Library Journal 10/01/2007 pg. 184
Booklist 11/15/2007 pg. 34
Voice of Youth Advocates 12/01/2007 pg. 462 - Reviewed - More Editing Needed
Kirkus Review - Children 12/15/2007 pg. 1301
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 01/01/2008 pg. 226
Publishers Weekly 02/25/2008 pg. 81
New York Times Book Review 02/24/2008 pg. 22
People Weekly 03/17/2008 pg. 150
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2008 - Recommended, Satisfactory
Hornbook Guide to Children 10/01/2008 pg. 456 - Recommended, Satisfactory

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 121973 / Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines
Reading Level: 4.9 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 17