Ordinary Resurrections: Children in the Years of Hope Contributor(s): Kozol, Jonathan (Author) |
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ISBN: 077043567X ISBN-13: 9780770435677 Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY) OUR PRICE: $14.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2012 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Religion | Psychology Of Religion - Social Science | Children's Studies - Social Science | Sociology - Urban |
Dewey: 305.230 |
Physical Information: 0.91" H x 5.22" W x 8.02" (0.69 lbs) 416 pages |
Accelerated Reader Info |
Quiz #: 46851 Reading Level: 7.2 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 16.0 |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Jonathan Kozol's books have become touchstones of the American conscience. In Ordinary Resurrections, he spends four years in the South Bronx with children who have become his friends at a badly underfunded but enlightened public school. A fascinating narrative of daily urban life, Ordinary Resurrections gives a human face to poverty and racial isolation, and provides a stirring testimony to the courage and resilience of the young. Sometimes playful, sometimes jubilantly funny, and sometimes profoundly sad, these are sensitive children--complex and morally insightful--and their ethical vitality denounces and subverts the racially charged labels that the world of grown-up expertise too frequently assigns to them. |