A hope in the unseen : an American odyssey from the inner city to the Ivy League

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Label

A hope in the unseen : an American odyssey from the inner city to the Ivy League

Title remainder

an American odyssey from the inner city to the Ivy League

Statement of responsibility

Ron Suskind

Creator

• trueSuskind, Ron

Subject

• Frank W. Ballou Senior High School (Washington, D.C.)
• Brown University -- Students -- Biography
• Frank W. Ballou Senior High School (Washington, D.C.) -- Students -- Biography
• trueInner city schools -- Washington, D.C
• trueInner city teenage boys -- Washington, D.C. -- Biography
• Jennings, Cedric Lavar
• Jennings, Cedric Lavar -- Childhood and youth
• Jennings, Cedric Lavar -- Knowledge and learning
• Learning and scholarship
• Students
• Washington (D.C.)
• trueWashington, D.C
• African American college students
• trueAfrican American college students -- Biography
• African American teenage boys -- Education
• African American teenage boys -- Education -- Washington (D.C.)
• trueAfrican American teenage boys -- Washington, D.C. -- Biography
• trueAfrican Americans -- Education -- Biography
• Biographies
• Biographies
• Brown University

Genre

• trueBiographies
• trueBiography

Language

eng

Summary

Follows gifted African-American student Cedric Jennings from his crime-infested high school in Washington D.C. to his junior year at Brown University, discussing the problems he encountered along the road out of the ghetto

Storyline

• trueIssue-oriented

Tone

• trueMoving
• trueSobering

Award

• ALA Notable Book, 1999.
• Booklist Editors' Choice: Adult Books for Young Adults, 1998.
• New York Times Notable Book, 1998

Biography type

individual biography

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

• 371.8/092
• B

Index

no index present

Interest level

UG

LC call number

LC2803.W3

LC item number

S87 1998

Literary form

non fiction

NLM call number

371.8092 S964h

Reading level

7.5

Study program name

Accelerated Reader AR