There Are No Children Here
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Alex Kotlowitz
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A moving and powerful account by an acclaimed journalist that "informs the heart. [This] meticulous portrait of two boys in a Chicago housing project shows how much heroism is required to survive, let alone escape" (The New York Times)."Alex Kotlowitz joins the ranks of the important few writers on the subiect of urban poverty."—Chicago TribuneThe story of two remarkable boys struggling to survive in Chicago's Henry Horner Homes, a public housing complex disfigured by crime and neglect.
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Author
Alex Kotlowitz
Pages
336
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published Date
2011-11-30
ISBN
0307814289 9780307814289
Ratings
Google: 3
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"Powerful book about the realities of life and the disadvantages faced by impoverished children growing up in Chicago housing projects."
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Rebekah Travis