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Author Hicks, Deborah.

Title The road out : a teacher's odyssey in poor America / Deborah Hicks
Published Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2013

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 278 pages) : illustrations
Series Simpson, imprint in humanities
Simpson, imprint in humanities
Contents Ghost Rose speaks -- Elizabeth discovers her paperback -- We're sisters! -- My life as a girl -- Girl talk -- A magazine is born -- Mrs. Bush visits (but not our class) -- A Saturday at the bookstore -- Jessica finds Jesus, and Elizabeth finds love -- Blair discovers a voice -- Leavings -- At sixteen -- Girlhood interrupted -- I deserve a better life -- The road out
Summary Can one teacher truly make a difference in her students' lives when everything is working against them? Can a love for literature and learning save the most vulnerable of youth from a life of poverty? The Road Out is a gripping account of one teacher's journey of hope and discovery with her students-girls growing up poor in a neighborhood that was once home to white Appalachian workers, and is now a ghetto. Deborah Hicks, set out to give one group of girls something she never had: a first-rate education, and a chance to live their dreams. A contemporary tragedy is brought to life as she
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes English
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Subject Hicks, Deborah -- Anecdotes
SUBJECT Hicks, Deborah fast
Subject Poor girls -- Education -- Ohio -- Cincinnati
Poor white people -- Education -- Ohio -- Cincinnati
Poor girls -- Books and reading -- Ohio -- Cincinnati
Poor girls -- Ohio -- Cincinnati -- Anecdotes
EDUCATION -- Students & Student Life.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Gender Studies.
Poor girls
Ohio -- Cincinnati
Genre/Form Anecdotes
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2012010483
ISBN 1283937778
9781283937771
0520953711
9780520953710