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There Are No Children Here: The Story Of Two Boys Growing Up In The Other America
Alex Kotlowitz

There Are No Children Here: The Story Of Two Boys Growing Up In The Other America

the story of two boys growing up in the other America

Anchor (Jan 05, 1992)
9780385265560
| Paperback
336 pages | 127 x 201 mm | English
Dewey 305.230977311
LC Classification HQ792.U5 .K683 1992
LC Control No. 91028532

Subject

  • Children - Social Conditions - Case Studies. - Illinois
  • Families - Case Studies. - Illinois
  • Inner Cities - Case Studies. - Illinois

Plot

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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