There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America by Kotlowitz, Alex

There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America (Helen Bernstein Book Award) (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780385265560)

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There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America by Kotlowitz, Alex

There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America (Helen Bernstein Book Award)

$18.00
There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America by Kotlowitz, Alex

There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America (Helen Bernstein Book Award)

$18.00
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: Alex Kotlowitz
ISBN-10: 0385265565
ISBN-13: 9780385265560
Publisher: Anchor Books
Language: English
Published: 01/05/1992
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.04h x 5.18w x 0.70d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 6.7
Point Value: 16
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 19798 / There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America

Award: Helen Bernstein Book Award - Winner
By Alex Kotlowitz
By Alex Kotlowitz
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ALEX KOTLOWITZ is the author of the national bestseller There Are No Children Here, which the New York Public Library selected as one of the 150 most important books of the twentieth century. His second book, The Other Side of the River, was awarded the Heartland Prize for Non-Fiction. For his documentary film, The Interrupters, he received an Emmy and a Film Independent Spirit Award for Best Documentary. Kotlowitz's work, which has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, and on public radio's This American Life, has been honored with two Peabody awards, two duPont-Columbia University awards, and a George Polk Award. He is a writer in residence at Northwestern University. Kotlowitz lives with his wife, Maria Woltjen, and their two children, Mattie and Lucas, just outside of Chicago.

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