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There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in The Other
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There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in The Other America (Helen Bernstein Book Award) Paperback - 1992

by Alex Kotlowitz

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This bestseller is the moving and powerful account of two remarkable boys struggling to survive in Chicago's Henry Horner Homes. "An extraordinary glimpse into the lives of those struggling for survival and dignity in inner-city America".--Chicago Sun-Times.

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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.

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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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  • Title There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in The Other America (Helen Bernstein Book Award)
  • Author Alex Kotlowitz
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: Repri
  • Pages 336
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 1992-01-05
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • ISBN 9780385265560 / 0385265565
  • Weight 0.55 lbs (0.25 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.04 x 5.18 x 0.7 in (20.42 x 13.16 x 1.78 cm)
  • Reading level 970
  • Themes
    • Demographic Orientation: Urban
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
    • Geographic Orientation: Illinois
    • Locality: Chicago, Illinois
    • Religious Orientation: Christian
  • Category Ethnic Issues
  • Library of Congress subjects Inner cities - Illinois - Chicago - Case, Inner cities - Illinois - Chicago
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 91028532
  • Dewey Decimal Code 305.230

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"Alex Kotlowitz  joins the ranks of the important few writers on the  subiect of urban poverty." --  Chicago Tribune.

About the author

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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