TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hicks,Deborah
TI  - The road out: a teacher's odyssey in poor America 
SN  - 9780520266490 (cloth : alk. paper)
AV  - LC4093.C56 H53 2013
U1  - 371.822 23
PY  - 2013///]
CY  - Berkeley
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - Hicks, Deborah
KW  - Poor girls
KW  - Education
KW  - Ohio
KW  - Cincinnati
KW  - Poor whites
KW  - Books and reading
KW  - Anecdotes
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
ER  -