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Genre/Form: | Autobiographies Biographies Biography |
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Named Person: | C Nicole Mason; C Nicole Mason; C Nicole Mason |
Material Type: | Biography |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
C Nicole Mason |
ISBN: | 9781250069924 1250069920 |
OCLC Number: | 951465239 |
Description: | 242 pages ; 25 cm |
Contents: | What do you want to be? -- Day of reckoning -- A crack in the foundation -- Origins -- The end of things -- Starved -- Putting out the fire -- Free today -- A home of our own -- Only one rule -- 54 out of 54 -- Death is here -- Wedding day -- Home street -- Seeing with only these eyes -- Away -- Not poor, poor -- Sonnie's got a baby -- Cell block high -- A place called home -- A light -- Food for all -- New mission -- Gone -- In the desert -- Brighter -- Little brother -- Accepted -- Graduation -- I'll fly away -- What should be done? |
Responsibility: | C. Nicole Mason. |
Abstract:
A powerful memoir of what it takes to escape poverty. This book will change how you see the poor.
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