Title: The road out : a teacher's odyssey in poor America /
Authors: Hicks, Deborah
Publisher: University of California Press,
Year: 2013
Subjects: Hicks, Deborah Anecdotes.; Poor girls Education Ohio Cincinnati.; Poor white people Education Ohio Cincinnati.; Poor girls Books and reading Ohio Cincinnati.; Poor girls Ohio Cincinnati Anecdotes.
Abstract: 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.
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.