“Normal At Any Cost: Tall Girls, Short Boys, and the Medical Industry’s Quest to Manipulate Height,” by Susan Cohen and Christine Cosgrove, has won a book award from the National Association of Science Writers. The book, published in 2009, was written with support from the Fund for Investigative Journalism.

As police pinned Derrick Reed to the hood of a squad car, one thought raced through his mind: “Oh, man. I’m going to go away. I’m 17 now.”

The East Garfield Park teen’s coming-of-age story isn’t filled with school dances or football-team tryouts. Rather, the day that shaped his adolescence was Nov. 30, 2009.

(Read the series in The Chicago Reporter.)