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Among Schoolchildren - by Tracy Kidder (Paperback)

Name: Among Schoolchildren - by Tracy Kidder (Paperback)
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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.
Author(s): Tracy Kidder
352 Pages
Education, Elementary

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About the Book

Brimming with the exuberance and innocence of childhood, Among School Children is the intense and affecting chronicle of a Holyoke, Massachusetts, fifth-grade teacher's passionate dedication to the children in her classroom.#Houghton Mifflin.

Book Synopsis

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.

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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 -- sharings 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 . . . and his most memorable, emotionally charged, and important book to date.

Review Quotes

"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

"Splendid. . . smooth, informal, extraordinarily readable. . . . A book as exciting as it is eye-opening." - Chicago Sun-Times

"Erupts with passionate life." - USA Today

"Kidder's close observations tie us into the emotional networks that make up classroom life. . . . A wonderful, compassionate book about teaching." - Chicago Tribune

"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

Specifications

Dimensions (Overall): 8.16 Inches (H) x 5.32 Inches (W) x .87 Inches (D)

Weight: .56 Pounds

Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up

Number of Pages: 352

Genre: Education

Sub-Genre: Elementary

Publisher: Harper Perennial

Format: Paperback

Author: Tracy Kidder

Language: English

Street Date: September 1, 1990

TCIN: 77027974

UPC: 9780380710898

Item Number (DPCI): 247-28-5549

Origin: Made in the USA or Imported

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