Among Schoolchildren
By Tracy Kidder
(Harper Perennial, Paperback, 9780380710898, 352pp.)
Publication Date: September 1, 1990
Other Editions of This Title: Hardcover, MP3 CD, MP3 CD
Categories: Elementary
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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.











