Among Schoolchildren

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 ReviewTracy 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.

• | Author: Tracy Kidder
• | Publisher: Harper Perennial
• | Publication Date: Sep 01, 1990
• | Number of Pages: 352 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0380710897
• | ISBN-13: 9780380710898