The road out : a teacher's odyssey in poor America / Deborah Hicks.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2013]Description: xiii, 278 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780520266490 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0520266498 (cloth : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 371.822 23
LOC classification:
  • LC4093.C56 H53 2013
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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