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Among Schoolchildren
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
"Among School Children is more than a book about needy children and a valiant teacher; it is full of the author's genuine love, delight and celebration of the human condition." --New York Times Book Review
Tracy Kidder--the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Soul of a New Machine and the extraordinary national bestseller House--spent nine months in Mrs. Zajac's fifth-grade classroom in the depressed "Flats" of Holyoke, Massachusetts. For an entire year he lived among twenty schoolchildren and their indomitable, compassionate teacher--sharing their joys, their catastrophes, and their small but essential triumphs.
As a result, he has written a revealing, remarkably poignant account of education in America.
Book Details
- Publisher: Harper Perennial
- Publish Date: Sep 1st, 1990
- Pages: 352
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.16in - 5.32in - 0.87in - 0.56lb
- EAN: 9780380710898
- Categories: • Schools - Levels - Elementary• Rural• Classroom Management
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"Kidder's close observations tie us into the emotional networks that make up classroom life. . . . A wonderful, compassionate book about teaching." -- Chicago Tribune
"Among School Children is more than a book about needy children and a valiant teacher; it is full of the author's genuine love, delight and celebration of the human condition. He has never used his talent so well." -- New York Times Book Review
"Kidder brilliantly illuminates the reasons for hope and the reasons for despair that sit side by side, or share a desk, in schoolrooms across the nation." -- Newsday
"Splendid. . . smooth, informal, extraordinarily readable. . . . A book as exciting as it is eye-opening." -- Chicago Sun-Times
"Erupts with passionate life." -- USA Today