- Paperback: 168 pages
- Publisher: Blue/Black Press (January 2002)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0965282716
- ISBN-13: 978-0965282710
- Product Dimensions: 20.4 x 12.8 x 1.1 cm
- Shipping Weight: 195 g
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#1,493,757 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #5 in Books > Teens > Social Issues > Runaway & Homeless
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Gr. 7-12. Stewart has an unpolished and raw but also articulate and heartfelt voice. Her diarylike account, written with White's assistance, describes growing up in a shack with no bathroom or running water in Slew's Quarter, Preston, Georgia. She remembers with searing clarity, at age five, hearing classmates talk about bubble baths and Friday night pizza and finding no match in her life for these things. She writes about the kind of verbal abuse heaped on youngsters who are poor, and her rage at the father who abandoned her. But Stewart had shrewd intelligence, deep religious faith, and a devoted mother, which allows her to tell readers about making her own way, using education and hard work to find a different way of living. Stewart has earned a touch of self-righteousness, and she has certainly earned the right to be heard. Her story should reach other teens who might find her life and her success as she prepares for college unimaginable. GraceAnne DeCandido
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Already a shining example to millions of teens in America. Bridgett Stewart shares her incredible life about her amazing journey through unthinkable poverty and discusses everything from gaining her own self-respect when no one else would respect her because of where shelived. To surviving verbal abuse from classmates, living without a father,school pressures and her decision to use education as a vehicle from poverty and earning a 4.0 grade point average in tough and trying times. A guest on the Rosie O'Donnell Show.
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An inspiring book for everyone to read, Nov 30 2006
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this book is about a girl from preston who's life is a big adventure and a sad adventure too. she also has to gain her self-respect because of where she lived and how her family is. Bridgett Stewart is her name and she has the right to be heard from the beginning to the end. And her mom is the only one who is helping her while her dad goes away when Bridgett was very young. I think this book should be a book that everyone should read and that all ages should read it if they want to be inspired. because bridgett stewart starts inspiring people from beginning to end in this wonderful book
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