Hicks, Deborah. <br/><br/>
The road out :  a teacher's odyssey in poor America / 
Deborah Hicks. 
 - Berkeley :  University of California Press,  [2013] 
 - xiii, 278 pages :  illustrations ;  23 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780520266490 (cloth : alk. paper) 0520266498 (cloth : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2012010483 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Hicks, Deborah--Anecdotes.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Poor girls--Education--Ohio--Cincinnati.<br/>Poor whites--Education--Ohio--Cincinnati.<br/>Poor girls--Books and reading--Ohio--Cincinnati.<br/>Poor girls--Ohio--Cincinnati--Anecdotes.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>LC4093.C56  / H53 2013 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>371.822