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The Road Out - A Teacher's Odyssey in Poor America (Paperback)
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The Road Out - A Teacher's Odyssey in Poor America (Paperback)
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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.
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