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She's Not Little Miss Nicey-Nice Pre-teen author Morgan Fields - the first published novelist born in this century - unveils the secret heroine in every New Girl. Uptight adults will be horrified. Nine-year-old Amelia Rae dresses in Goth, disrespects authority and takes no guff from anyone as she tries to find her family members, who may - or may not - have been murdered. This mouthy girl braves broken bones, hunger, bullying, deceitful friends, kidnappings, murder, inept federal agents and the betrayals of her calculating step-mother. This is a girl who flies across country by herself, is...

How often do working-class children obtain college degrees and then pursue professional careers? Conversely, how frequently do the children of doctors and lawyers fail to enter high status careers upon completion of their schooling? As inequalities of wealth and income have increased in industrialized nations over the past 30 years, have patterns of between-generation mobility changed? In this volume, leading sociologists and economists present original findings and conceptual arguments in response to questions like these. After assessing the range of mobility patterns observed in recent...