LEADER 05036nam 2201033 a 450 001 9910826027803321 005 20220208173315.0 010 $a0-520-95371-1 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520953710 035 $a(CKB)2670000000315384 035 $a(EBL)1106831 035 $a(OCoLC)823577557 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000803710 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11508835 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000803710 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10810589 035 $a(PQKB)10720195 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1106831 035 $a(DE-B1597)519302 035 $a(OCoLC)843061363 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520953710 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1106831 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10642637 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL425027 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000315384 100 $a20120402d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe road out$b[electronic resource] $ea teacher's odyssey in poor America /$fDeborah Hicks 210 $aBerkeley $cUniversity of California Press$d2013 215 $a1 online resource (295 p.) 225 0$aSimpson, imprint in humanities 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-520-28391-0 311 $a0-520-26649-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $aGhost 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. 330 $aCan 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. 606 $aPoor girls$xEducation$zOhio$zCincinnati 606 $aPoor white people$xEducation$zOhio$zCincinnati 606 $aPoor girls$xBooks and reading$zOhio$zCincinnati 606 $aPoor girls$zOhio$zCincinnati$vAnecdotes 610 $aadolescence. 610 $aadult nonfiction. 610 $aagainst the odds. 610 $aappalachians. 610 $aclass differences. 610 $acoming of age. 610 $acontemporary history. 610 $aeducation system. 610 $aeducation. 610 $aeducators. 610 $aghetto. 610 $ajourney of discovery. 610 $alearning. 610 $amemoir. 610 $anonfiction account. 610 $apoor america. 610 $apoor neighborhoods. 610 $apoverty cycle. 610 $apoverty studies. 610 $apoverty. 610 $apower of fiction. 610 $arace and class. 610 $asingle parent families. 610 $asocial advocates. 610 $asocial issues. 610 $asocial justice. 610 $astudent life. 610 $ateachers and students. 610 $ateachers. 610 $aunited states. 610 $awomen and girls. 615 0$aPoor girls$xEducation 615 0$aPoor white people$xEducation 615 0$aPoor girls$xBooks and reading 615 0$aPoor girls 676 $a371.822 700 $aHicks$b Deborah$01711308 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910826027803321 996 $aThe road out$94102527 997 $aUNINA