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.