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Name: The Promise
Rating: 4.0 (3 reviews)
Author: Oral Lee Brown, Caille Millner
ISBN: 9780385511476

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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