Among Schoolchildren - by Tracy Kidder (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>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.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><strong>NATIONAL BESTSELLER</strong></p><p><strong>"<em>Among School Children</em> 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." --<em>New York Times Book Review</em></strong></p><p>Tracy Kidder--the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of <em>The Soul of a New Machine </em>and the extraordinary national bestseller <em>House--</em>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. </p><p>As a result, he has written a revealing, remarkably poignant account of education in America.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br><p>Tracy Kidder -- the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of <em>The Soul of a New Machine</em> and the extraordinary national bestseller <em>House</em> -- 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. <p></p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"<em>Among School Children</em> 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."--<strong><em>New York Times Book Review</em></strong><br><br>Erupts with passionate life.--<strong><em>USA Today</em></strong><br><br>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.--<strong><em>Newsday</em></strong><br><br>Kidder's close observations tie us into the emotional networks that make up classroom life. . . . A wonderful, compassionate book about teaching.--<strong><em>Chicago Tribune</em></strong><br><br>Splendid. . . smooth, informal, extraordinarily readable. . . . A book as exciting as it is eye-opening.--<strong><em>Chicago Sun-Times</em></strong><br>
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