Project Girl (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780520223455)

Selected by The Los Angeles Times Book Review as one of the best books of the year, Project Girl is the powerful account of a young woman's struggle to realize her dreams while remaining true to who she was before attending Ivy League schools and receiving impressive diplomas. It tells of the spectacular failures and unlikely comebacks of a ghetto kid whose academic talent opens doors onto a world of private schools, rich classmates, and plum jobs but who back home confronts a neighborhood of growing poverty, drug abuse, and crime. Project Girl is McDonald's story of her divided life and terrible battle to reconcile opposing worlds.

Author: Janet McDonald
ISBN-10: 0520223454
ISBN-13: 9780520223455
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 10/10/2000
Pages: 231
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.83lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.07w x 0.76d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 6.6
Point Value: 12
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 114781 / Project Girl