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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Univ of California Pr
Publication date
August 13, 2014
Pages
278
Binding
Paperback
Edition
Reprint
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780520283916
ISBN-10
0520283910
Dimensions
1 by 5.75 by 8.50 in.
Weight
0.78 lbs.
Original list price
$29.95
Other format details
university press
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Summaries and Reviews
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Can one teacher truly make a difference in her studentsâ 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 teacherâs journey of hope and discovery with her studentsÂgirls 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 streetâs torments with courage and resiliency. ÂI want out,â 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 theyâre 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 authorâs own life storyÂfrom a poorly educated girl in a small mountain town to a Harvard-educated writer, teacher, and social advocateÂinfuses this chronicle with a message of hope.
This is a moving story about girls who have lost their childhoods, but who face the streetâs torments with courage and resiliency. ÂI want out,â 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 theyâre 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 authorâs own life storyÂfrom a poorly educated girl in a small mountain town to a Harvard-educated writer, teacher, and social advocateÂinfuses this chronicle with a message of hope.
Editions
Hardcover
from Univ of California Pr (February 12, 2013)
9780520266490 | details & prices | 278 pages | 5.75 × 8.75 × 1.25 in. | 1.05 lbs | List price $29.95
Paperback
The price comparison is for this edition
Reprint edition from Univ of California Pr (August 13, 2014)
9780520283916 | details & prices | 278 pages | 5.75 × 8.50 × 1.00 in. | 0.78 lbs | List price $29.95
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