And Still We Rise:: The Trials and Triumphs of Twelve Gifted Inner-City Students
of Miles Corwin
Description
Bestselling author of The Killing Season and veteran Los Angeles Times reporter Miles Corwin spent a school year with twelve high school seniors -- South-Central kids who qualified for a gifted program because of their exceptional IQs and test scores. Sitting alongside them in classrooms where bullets were known to rip through windows, Corwin chronicled their amazing odyssey as they faced the greatest challenges of their academic lives. And Still We Rise is an unforgettable story of transcending obstacles that would dash the hopes of any but the most exceptional spirits.
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- Format Paperback
- Pages 432 pages
- Publisher Harper Perennial
- Publication Date March 20th 2001
- First Publication 04/26/00
- Language English
- ISBN 9780380798292
- Edition Not informed
- Category Non-Fiction
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