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There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America
Contributor(s): Kotlowitz, Alex (Author), Graham, Dion (Read by)
ISBN: 1441734856     ISBN-13: 9781441734853
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
OUR PRICE:   $26.96  
Product Type: MP3 CD - Other Formats
Published: May 2010
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies - African American Studies
- Social Science | Children's Studies
- Social Science | Sociology - Urban
Dewey: 305.230
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.3" W x 7.4" (0.20 lbs)
Themes:
- Locality - Chicago, Illinois
- Ethnic Orientation - African American
- Demographic Orientation - Urban
- Geographic Orientation - Illinois
 
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Publisher Description:
This national bestseller chronicles the true story of two brothers coming of age in the Henry Horner public housing complex in Chicago. Lafeyette and Pharoah Rivers are eleven and nine years old when the story begins in the summer of 1987. Living with their mother and six siblings, they struggle against grinding poverty, gun violence, gang influences, overzealous police officers, and overburdened and neglectful bureaucracies. Immersed in their lives for two years, Kotlowitz brings us this classic rendering of growing up poor in America's cities. There Are No Children Here was selected by the New York Public Library as one of the 150 most important books of the twentieth century. It was later made into a television movie for ABC, produced by and starring Oprah Winfrey.

Contributor Bio(s): Kotlowitz, Alex: -

Alex Kotlowitz's honors include the George Foster Peabody Award, the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, and the George Polk Award. A former staff writer at the Wall Street Journal, his work has appeared in numerous publications including the New York Times Magazine, the Atlantic, and the New Yorker, as well as on public radio's This American Life and on PBS's Frontline. He is also the author of Never a City So Real and The Other Side of the River.

Graham, Dion: -

Dion Graham, from HBO's The Wire, also narrates The First 48 on A&E. An Audie Award winner and critically acclaimed actor and narrator, he has performed on Broadway, off Broadway, internationally, in films, and in several hit television series. His performances have been praised as thoughtful and compelling, vivid and full of life.