A Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League

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It’s 1993, and Cedric Jennings is a bright and ferociously made up our minds honor student at Ballou, a high school in one in all Washington D.C.’s most dangerous neighborhoods, where the dropout rate is well into double digits and just 80 students out of more than 1,350 boast a typical of B or better. At Ballou, Cedric has almost no friends. He eats lunch in a classroom most days, plowing through the extra work he has asked for, knowing that he’s in reality competing with kids from other, harder schools. Cedric Jennings’s driving ambition–which is fully supported by his forceful mother–is to attend a top-flight college.

In September 1995, after years of near superhuman dedication, he realizes that ambition when he begins as a freshman at Brown University. On this up to date edition, A Hope within the Unseen chronicles Cedric’s odyssey all through his last two years of highschool, follows him through his difficult first year at Brown, and now tells the story of his subsequent successes in college and the world of work.

Book Details:

  • Format: Paperback
  • Publication Date: 5/4/1999
  • Pages: 373
  • Reading Level: Age 13 and Up
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