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

Los Angeles Times reporter Miles Corwin spends a school year with twelve high school seniors -- South-Central kids who qualified for a gifted program because of their exceptional IQs and test scores. Sitting alongside them in classrooms where bullets were known to rip through windows, Corwin chronicled their amazing odyssey as they faced the greatest challenges of their academic lives.