One Rose Blooming: Hard-Earned Lessons about Kids, Race, and Life in America

by Rose Martin and Doug Truax

In One Rose Blooming, Rose Martin shares her rare and indomitable spirit with each of us. Despite having been raised on the mean streets of an East Coast ghetto, Rose grew—yes, bloomed—into a woman... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0970091745
• ISBN13: 9780970091741
• Release Date: March 2002
• Publisher: Crofton Creek Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.

Customer Reviews

VERY INSPIRING

I enjoyed reading "One Rose Blooming". It kept me reading and climaxes well. This book is on the line with "Tuesdays with Morrie". It is inspirational and full of wit. "One Rose Blooming" is the kind of book you keep in your personal library, and buy for others as a gift.

Lessons from Rose Martin

I have lived in Ann Arbor as long as Rose Martin but clearly have missed a lot of people along the way. In her book I was able to put a face to some of the street people and city people that I never cross paths with. Reading this book helped me develop compassion.

Rose is blooming indeed!

What an encouraging, enlightening, straight-forward, and sometimes funny memoir of a fantastic, and fascinating life. Rose shows that in the light of adversary, and the hardships life dishes out, that you can, if guided by love, reign triumphant. Her life story is an inspiration to anyone who reads her words. I normally take my time in reading books, but I finished this one in one day. I absolutely could not put it down, and I actually stayed awake. I felt her pain, and I laughed out loud.I am impressed and in love with her devotion, dedication, and determination to 'get things done'.You won't be disappointed!!

One Rose Blooming

My god mother is helping me read this book. I love it. I want to be like Rose when I grow up! I understand more now. About how adults think. And why I can't understand them most of the time. I want my mom to read this book. So that she will understnd me better. My godmother only helps me read One Rose Blooming in the evenings. I don't want to stop reading it. I wish that I didn't have to go to school in the morning. That way I could stay up until I get through reading it.

"Inspiring"

Rose Martin has written a book that contains stories that will inspire and help us ALL to understand what it means to persevere, to dream and a believe in hope. Real life events that teach us what it really takes to be a member of the human race. What a Book... What a Life...What a Story...