There Are No Children Here-The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in The Other America

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A moving and powerful account by an acclaimed journalist that "informs the heart. [This] meticulous portrait of two boys in a Chicago housing project shows how much heroism is required to survive, let alone escape" (The New York Times).

"Alex Kotlowitz  joins the ranks of the important few writers on the  subiect of urban poverty."—Chicago Tribune

The story of two remarkable boys struggling to survive in Chicago's  Henry Horner Homes, a public housing complex disfigured by crime and neglect.

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Product # 44538-G
Author Alex Kotlowitz
Grade Level 10-12
Interest Level 9-12
Fiction/Nonfiction Nonfiction
Lexile Level 970
Publisher Anchor Books
Multicultural African American