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Hicks, Deborah.

The road out : a teacher's odyssey in poor America / Deborah Hicks. - Berkeley : University of California Press, [2013] - xiii, 278 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction: A teacher on a mission -- Childhood ghosts : 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 -- Epilogue.

Provides an account of a teacher's quest to give a first-rate education to a group of seven impoverished Cincinnati girls using the powers of sisterhood and fiction.

ISBN: 9780520266490 (cloth : alk. paper) 0520266498 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN: 2012010483

Subjects--Personal Names:
Hicks, Deborah--Anecdotes.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Poor girls--Education--Ohio--Cincinnati.
Poor whites--Education--Ohio--Cincinnati.
Poor girls--Books and reading--Ohio--Cincinnati.
Poor girls--Ohio--Cincinnati--Anecdotes.

LC Class. No.: LC4093.C56 / H53 2013

Dewey Class. No.: 371.822