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Author Hicks, Deborah.

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

Publication Info. Berkeley : University of California Press, [2013]

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 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Non Fiction  371.822 HICKS    Check Shelf
Description xiii, 278 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
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.
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.
Subject Poor girls -- Education -- Ohio -- Cincinnati.
Poor white people -- Education -- Ohio -- Cincinnati.
Poor girls -- Books and reading -- Ohio -- Cincinnati.
Poor girls -- Ohio -- Cincinnati -- Anecdotes.
Hicks, Deborah -- Anecdotes.
ISBN 9780520266490 cloth alkaline paper
0520266498 cloth alkaline paper
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