The road out
Subtitle: a teacher's odyssey in poor America
By: Deborah Hicks
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9780520266490
Subjects: Books and reading; Poor whites; Education; Poor girls; Anecdotes
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Ghost Rose speaks; title: Elizabeth discovers her paperback; title: We're sisters!; title: My life as a girl; title: Girl talk; title: A magazine is born; title: Mrs. Bush visits (but not our class); title: A Saturday at the bookstore; title: Jessica finds Jesus, and Elizabeth finds love; title: Blair discovers a voice; title: Leavings; title: At sixteen; title: Girlhood interrupted; title: I deserve a better life; title: The road out.