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Book 2010

There Are No Children Here

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Publisher
San Val
Published
2010
  • Case studies
  • Inner cities
  • Social conditions
  • Children
  • Family
  • Families
  • Public Housing
  • Child Development

One of the surprise bestsellers of 1991, this is the moving & powerful account of two remarkable boys struggling to survive in Chicago's Henry Horner Homes, a public housing complex disfigured by crime & neglect. "Alex Kotlowitz joins the ranks of the important few writers on the subject of urban poverty." 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.