The road out (Record no. 392161)

000 -LEADER
fixed length control field	02139nam a22001337a 4500
INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number	9780520266490
AUTHOR NAME
AUTHOR NAME	Hicks, Deborah
TITLE STATEMENT
Title	The road out
PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc	USA
Name of publisher, distributor, etc	simson funds of the University of California
Date of publication, distribution, etc	2013
GENERAL NOTE
General note	Can one teacher truly make a difference in her students' lives when everything is working against them? Can a love for literature and learning save the most vulnerable of youth from a life of poverty? The Road Out is a gripping account of one teacher's journey of hope and discovery with her students--girls growing up poor in a neighborhood that was once home to white Appalachian workers, and is now a ghetto. Deborah Hicks, set out to give one group of girls something she never had: a first-rate education, and a chance to live their dreams. A contemporary tragedy is brought to life as she leads us deep into the worlds of Adriana, Blair, Mariah, Elizabeth, Shannon, Jessica, and Alicia seven girls coming of age in poverty. This is a moving story about girls who have lost their childhoods, but who face the street's torments with courage and resiliency. "I want out," says 10-year-old Blair, a tiny but tough girl who is extremely poor and yet deeply imaginative and precocious. Hicks tries to convey to her students a sense of the power of fiction and of sisterhood to get them through the toughest years of adolescence. But by the time they're sixteen, eight years after the start of the class, the girls are experiencing the collision of their youthful dreams with the pitfalls of growing up in chaotic single-parent families amid the deteriorating cityscape. Yet even as they face disappointments and sometimes despair, these girls cling to their desire for a better future. The author's own life story--from a poorly educated girl in a small mountain town to a Harvard-educated writer, teacher, and social advocate--infuses this chronicle with a message of hope. Read an excerpt here: The Road Out: A Teacher's Odyssey in Poor America by Deborah Hicks by University of California Press
SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element	Poverty
ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA)
Koha item type	02. English Fiction

Copies

Piece designation (barcode)	Koha full call number	School Code	Collection
STPK20566	371.822 HIC	Stonepark Intermediate School	TREF