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The Road Out: A Teacher's Odyssey in Poor America

The Road Out: A Teacher's Odyssey in Poor America


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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.

Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations Author's Note Introduction: A Teacher on a Mission Part I. Childhood Ghosts 1. Ghost Rose Speaks 2. Elizabeth Discovers Her Paperback 3. We're Sisters! Part II. My Life as a Girl 4. Girl Talk 5. A Magazine Is Born 6. Mrs. Bush Visits (But Not Our Class) 7. A Saturday at the Bookstore 8. Jessica Finds Jesus, and Elizabeth Finds Love 9. Blair Discovers a Voice Part III. Leavings 10. At Sixteen 11. Girlhood Interrupted 12. I Deserve a Better Life 13. The Road Out Epilogue Notes Index

About the Author :
Deborah Hicks has written about the lives of children for two decades. She works in the Program in Education at Duke University and directs an educational program for girls in Appalachia.

Review :
"It's become a standard book and movie trope: An idealistic teacher walks into a classroom of hardened, at-risk students and strives to reach them.But the outlines of the story, while familiar, can still surprise and inspire." Boston Globe Book Section "A valuable look at the intellectual lives (and fragile potential) of girls buffeted by American social realities, and an excellent reflection on the challenges of teaching." Kirkus Reviews


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780520283916
  • Publisher: University of California Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of California Press
  • Height: 210 mm
  • No of Pages: 294
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 19 mm
  • Weight: 363 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0520283910
  • Publisher Date: 13 Aug 2014
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • No of Pages: 294
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: A Teacher's Odyssey in Poor America
  • Width: 140 mm


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