I loved this autobiographical account of Pat Conroy's year teaching school on Yamacraw Island. He was presented with a class of black children who could not read, didn't know who the President of the United States was, or that they actually lived in the United States. His efforts were pretty heroic considering the cultural and geographic challenges he was facing. I'm not sure what else to say about it - there is a lot that could be said about racism and refusal to change with the times - better to just read it!