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Getting Ready: The Education of a White Family in Inner City Schools


Book Description
Getting Ready is quite simply an extraordinary book. For the story that Lois Mark Stalvey tells is searing, deeply moving, and at the same time infused with grace notes of warmth and humor. In 1962, the Stalveys, a middle-class, white, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant family, moved from Omaha to their new home in an integrated neighborhood in Philadelphia. Mrs. Stalvey writes about the experiences of he... More
Book Information
PublisherWilliam Morrow and Company
BindingHardcover (5 editions)
Reading LevelUncategorized
# of Pages307
ISBN-10B000K3VVOG
Publication Date/1974
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About Lois Mark Stalvey (Author) : Lois Mark Stalvey is a published author. A published credit of Lois Mark Stalvey is Getting ready: The education of a white family in inner city schools.
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