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Name: There Are No Children Here

Full title: There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in The Other America
Author: Alex Kotlowitz
Year: 1991
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Popularity: 2.3
Genres/categories: Non Fiction, Award winners, History, Biographies

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ISBN:
9780385265560
0385265565
Winner of the Society of Midland Authors Award for Nonfiction in 1992.
Winner of the Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism in 1992.

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.
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