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

Suskind, Ron

Overview

At Ballou Senior High, a crime-infested school in Washington, D.C., honor students have learned to keep their heads down. Like most inner-city kids, they know that any special attention in a place this dangerous can make you a target of violence. But Cedric Jennings will not swallow his pride, and with unwavering support from his mother, he studies and strives as if his life depends on it--and it does. The summer after his junior year, at a program for minorities at MIT, he gets a fleeting glimpse of life outside, a glimpse that turns into a face-on challenge one year later: acceptance into Brown University, an Ivy League school. At Brown, finding himself far behind most of the other freshmen, Cedric must manage a bewildering array of intellectual and social challenges. Cedric had hoped that at college he would finally find a place to fit in, but he discovers he has little in common with either the white students, many of whom come from privileged backgrounds, or the middle-class blacks. Having traveled too far to turn back, Cedric is left to rely on his faith, his intelligence, and his determination to keep alive his hope in the unseen--a future of acceptance and reward that he struggles, each day, to envision.

• Publisher: Broadway Books
• Subject: Jennings, Cedric Lavar Childhood and youth. / Jennings, Cedric Lavar Knowledge and learning. / Frank W. Ballou Senior High School (Washington, D.C.) Students Biography. / Brown University Students Biography. / African American teenage boys Education Washington (D.C.) / African American college students Biography.
• ISBN: 9780767901260, 0767901266

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
LC2803.W3 S87 2005	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE