And Still We Rise:: The Trials and Triumphs of Twelve Gifted Inner-City Students

Bestselling author of The Killing Season and veteran Los Angeles Times reporter Miles Corwin spent a school year with twelve high school seniors -- South-Central kids who qualified for a gifted progra…

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