Book Details
⚡️Book Title : And Still We Rise:: The Trials and Triumphs of Twelve Gifted Inner-City Students
⚡Book Author : Miles Corwin
⚡Page : 432 pages
⚡Published March 20th 2001 by Harper Perennial (first published April 26th 2000)
And Still We Rise:: The Trials and Triumphs of Twelve Gifted Inner-City Students - 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.
And Still We Rise:: The Trials and Triumphs of Twelve Gifted Inner-City Students
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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