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The Promise by Oral Lee Brown, Caille Millner

The Promise

How One Woman Made Good on Her Extraordinary Pact to Send a Classroom of 1st Graders to College

by Oral Lee Brown, Caille Millner
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  • Apr 1, 2005, 272 pages
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  • Dec 2007, 272 pages
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One woman's promise to send a class of children to college. Memoir
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