Mady Strohm’s Reviews > And Still We Rise:: The Trials and Triumphs of Twelve Gifted Inner-City Students > Status Update

Makeup for Absence 4/27

One thing that I found interesting about the introduction is this book was inspired by a seemingly irrelevant event that actually has a lot to do with the story. The fact that the author's initial inspiration was from the death of a boy that "would have graduated... along with the seniors who's story [he] tells" is really powerful to me. Who knew that his death would spark something so amazing that I now get to read?