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Stay The Course, set in rural North Carolina in the late 1960s through 1971, tells the moving story of a grandmother's ("Ma") lifelong dream to see one of her own get a high school diploma. To Ma, the day you finished your schooling was the day you got your "freedom". And, with four grandchildren set to graduate like stair steps, nothing seems to be standing in the way. But on a cloudy Saturday evening, tragedy strikes, leaving one grandson dead, another running from the police, one granddaughter emotionally shattered, and Ma with one last hope . . . Lori. Though, nothing could have prepared Lori for the struggles she would face on her journey to fulfill Ma's dream . . . sibling relations, race relations, accepting personal responsibility for her decisions, and having to learn positive ways of addressing life's challenges by first seeking to understand differences rather than judge. And just when she thought the worst was over, the worst was yet to come. On a beautiful Saturday evening, three days before Ma's dream would stop being a dream, bringing an end to one of life's cruelest games of dodgeball, the unbelievable happens.
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Hardcover. Etat : Very good. Etat de la jaquette : Very good. Fredricka Ross-Molock (Cover Design) (illustrateur). ix, [1], 230, [4] pages. Inscribed by author on title page. E.D. Arrington, the fourth of seven children, was raised on a farm in rural Greene County, North Carolina, by her grandparents, Tom and Eva Brown Arrington. A graduate of T.C. Williams High School in Alexandria, Virginia, she pursued her formal education at local colleges and universities in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. After a 25-year career at the National Education Association, she retired to a town 23 miles from her birthplace. E.D. Arrington is recognized for her volunteer service as a guardian ad litem, is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, is a regular guest speaker and co-host on various local radio, television, and Internet exchange programs, and was the featured poet at the first North Carolina African American Book Festival. In February 2008, Arrington founded and launched "It's Time To Read With Me!" an innovative, alternative "read aloud" literacy enrichment program for at-risk youth. This fictionalized autobiography is a paean to the support that a loving mentor can provide. The main character, Lori, is being raised by her grandparents. Her grandmother offers guidance and stories of past racial injustices and recent improvements; all this helps Lori when she becomes one of the first African American students to attend a previously all-white high school. Lori is smart and a good student, but she is not welcome and within the first year she is expelled. The local African American community fights for her reinstatement. Although the terms of her readmission are distasteful, Lori understands the lessons Ma has taught her. The novel focuses on Lori's growth, but it also contains a warm, rich picture of her family and the African American community in a rural North Carolina county. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. N° de réf. du vendeur 74592
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