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Up Home Ages 7 and up and to never underestimate anAn inspiring, indelible memoir from the daughter of sharecroppers in East Texas who became the first Black president of an Ivy League Universityan uplifting story of girlhood and the power of family, community, and the classroom to transform one young person's life. I was born at a crossroads: a crossroads in history, a crossroads in culture, and a geographical crossroads in North Houston County in East Texas. Born in 1945, Ruth J. Simmons grew up the