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There are no children here : the story of two boys growing up in the other America

Kotlowitz, Alex. (Author).

Summary: 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: electronic
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  • Publisher: 2011.

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Target Audience Note:
Text Difficulty 5 - Text Difficulty 7
970 Lexile.
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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).
Subject: Children Illinois Chicago Social conditions Case studies
Families Illinois Chicago Case studies
Inner cities Illinois Chicago Case studies
Nonfiction
Biography & Autobiography
Sociology
Genre: Electronic books.

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There Are No Children Here : The Story of Two Boys Growing up in the Other America (Helen Bernstein Book Award)
There Are No Children Here : The Story of Two Boys Growing up in the Other America (Helen Bernstein Book Award)
by Kotlowitz, Alex
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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.

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