My Name's Not Susie: A Life Transformed by Literacy de Sharon Jean Hamilton - 1995-10

Heinemann Educational Books, 1995. Hardcover. Good. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Heinemann, 1995. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Heinemann. VG+/VG+. 1995. Hardcover. 0867093617 . A very nice copy with clean, bright interior pages and solid binding. DJ in very nice condition. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 153 pages; Education .

Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. 0867093617 . Autoboiography of woman who went from abandonment and adoption to being a Phd in language and literature. ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall .

Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. 0867093617 . A Good Read ships from Toronto and Niagara Falls, NY - customers outside of North America please allow two to three weeks for delivery. ; Autoboiography of woman who went from abandonment and adoption to being a Phd in language and literature. ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall .

Boynton/Cook Publishers. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. 0867093617 . Unmarked book in crisp DJ with touch of shelfwear. ; 0.8 x 9.1 x 6.2 Inches; 153 pages .

Portsmouth: Boynton/Cook, 1995. Book. Near Fine. Paperback. 2nd Printing. 151 pp, brief bibliography, 8vo, pictorial front cover, wraps, inscribed/signed author. Going from a ward of a children's aid society, numerous foster homes to faculty member Indiana University, Purdue University Indianapolis..

Portsmouth: Boynton/Cook, 1995. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Printing. 151 pp, brief bibliography, 8vo, brown boards/cloth, fine, priced, near fine dust jacket. Going from a ward of the court, having 18 foster homes where she was given a series of new names & abused to being adopted at age three & a half & taking the long trip to literacy & a Ph.D. on the faculty of Indiana University, Purdue University Indianapolis.

Portsmouth: Boynton/Cook Publishers, 1996. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Inscribed & Signed by Author. 2nd printing.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. From the front flap: "By age three, Karen Agnes Fleming had already been neglected by her mother and made a ward of the court; had been in eighteen foster homes where she was given a new series of names; had experienced physical, sexual, and emotional abuse; and had been labeled disobedient, uneducable, and a social misfit." Inscription reads, "For Gertrude/Keep loving and reading/All the best/Sharon J. Hamilton"). Quarter brown cloth w/gilt spine lettering, 151 pages + bibliography. A bit cocked, bumped spine ends, a couple of turned corners, in rubbed dust jacket w/edgewear, moderate general wear. Jacket in protective mylar sleeve..

Good. Good Ships From Canada Some writing on the first white page -Small dents on the dust jacket Sewn binding Paper over boards 153 p Audience: General/trade From Publishers Weekly: Hamilton here tells how, through the liberation of literacy, she surmounted her cruel beginnings and is today a professor of English at Indiana-Purdue University As a young girl, she was described by various caretakers as a "'"bad apple "'" In her tortured early childhood, wanted by neither her birth nor her foster parents, she was given to rages that frightened her as well as others Hamilton recalls a defining moment when she was eight and at relative ease with a caring, adoptive mother To channel the child's incessant chatter, her schoolteacher mother suggested that she write what she could remember from the years of living in foster homes and orphanages, where she was given different names That exercise, and the stories read to her by her mother, not only became the basis for academic success but also p