There are no children here : [electronic resource] : the story of two boys growing up in the other America. Alex Kotlowitz.
This is the moving and powerful account of two remarkable boys struggling to survive in Chicago's Henry Horner Homes, a public housing complex disfigured by crime and neglect.From the Trade Paperback edition.
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- ISBN: 9780307814289 (electronic bk)
- Physical Description: 1 online resource
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Target Audience Note: | Text Difficulty 5 - Text Difficulty 7 970 Lexile. |
Reproduction Note: | Electronic reproduction. New York : Anchor, 2011. Requires OverDrive Read (file size: N/A KB) or Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 1951 KB) or Kobo app or compatible Kobo device (file size: N/A KB) or Amazon Kindle (file size: N/A KB). |
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Subject: | Children > Illinois > Chicago > Social conditions > Case studies. Families > Illinois > Chicago > Case studies. Inner cities > Illinois > Chicago > Case studies. Nonfiction. Biography & Autobiography. Sociology. |
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There Are No Children Here : The Story of Two Boys Growing up in the Other America (Helen Bernstein Book Award)
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There Are No Children Here : The Story of Two Boys Growing up in the Other America (Helen Bernstein Book Award)
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 Tribune The story of two remarkable boys struggling to survive in Chicago's Henry Horner Homes, a public housing complex disfigured by crime and neglect.