Publisher: | Harper Collins |
Genres: | Nonfiction Books, Sociology Books, Memoir Books |
Authors: | Tracy Kidder |
Pages: | 352 pages |
Binding: | Hardcover |
ISBN10: | 0380710897 |
ISBN13: | 9780380710898 |
Tags: | Nonfiction eBooks, Sociology eBooks, Memoir eBooks, epub eBooks, Free epub |
Language: | en |
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.