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    Born bright [large type] : a young girl's journey from nothing to something in America / C. Nicole Mason.
    by Mason, C. Nicole, 1976- author.
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    Thorndike, Maine : Center Point Large Print, 2017.
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  • Mason, C. Nicole, 1976-
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  • Mason, C. Nicole, 1976- -- Childhood and youth.
  •  
  • African American women -- Biography.
  •  
  • African Americans -- Biography.
  •  
  • African American women educators -- Biography.
  •  
  • Gifted women -- United States -- Biography.
  •  
  • Successful people -- United States -- Biography.
  •  
  • Poor children -- United States -- Biography.
  •  
  • Homeless persons -- United States -- Biography.
  • ISBN: 
    9781683242345 (large print)
    1683242343 (large print)
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    382 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 23 cm
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    Center Point Large print edition.
    Contents: 
    What do you want to be? -- Day of reckoning -- A crack in the foundation -- Origins -- The end of things -- Starved -- Putting out the fire -- Free today -- A home of our own -- Only one rule -- 54 out of 54 -- Death is here -- Wedding day -- Home street -- Seeing with only these eyes -- Away -- Not poor, poor -- Sonnie's got a baby -- Cell block high -- A place called home -- A light -- Food for all -- New mission -- Gone -- In the desert -- Brighter -- Little brother -- Accepted -- Graduation -- I'll fly away -- What should be done? -- Epilogue.
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    "While showing us her own path out of poverty, Mason examines the conditions that make it nearly impossible to escape and exposes the presumption harbored by many--that the poor don't help themselves enough"--Provided by publisher.
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