There are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America
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There are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America

Alex Kotlowitz
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This is the moving and powerful account of two remarkable boys struggling to survive in Chicago's Henry Horner Homes, a public housing complex disfigured by crime and neglect.
Genres: NonfictionSociologyHistoryEducationRaceBiographyPovertySocial JusticePoliticsSchool
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