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Name: Among Schoolchildren
Author: Tracy Kidder
Year: 1989
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Genres/categories: Non Fiction, Award winners

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ISBN:
9780380710898
0380710897
Winner of the Ambassador Book Award for American Studies in 1990.

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.
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