| Among Schoolchildren Contributor(s): Kidder, Tracy (Author) |
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ISBN: 0380710897 ISBN-13: 9780380710898 Publisher: Harper Perennial OUR PRICE: $16.19 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 1990 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Education | Elementary - Education | Rural - Education | Classroom Management |
| Dewey: 372.1 |
| Physical Information: 0.87" H x 5.32" W x 8.16" (0.56 lbs) 352 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |