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Among Schoolchildren
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Among Schoolchildren Paperback - 1990

by Tracy Kidder

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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.

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From the publisher

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.

From the rear cover

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.

Details

  • Title Among Schoolchildren
  • Author Tracy Kidder
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 352
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Harper Perennial, New York
  • Publication date 1990-09-01
  • Features Bibliography
  • ISBN 9780380710898 / 0380710897
  • Weight 0.56 lbs (0.25 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.16 x 5.32 x 0.87 in (20.73 x 13.51 x 2.21 cm)
  • Themes
    • Demographic Orientation: Rural
    • Demographic Orientation: Urban
    • Topical: Family
  • Category Education / Teaching
  • Library of Congress subjects Elementary school teaching - United States -, Fifth grade (Education) - United States -
  • Dewey Decimal Code 372.1

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  • Publishers Weekly, 07/20/1990, Page 0

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