Among Schoolchildren
By Tracy Kidder
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By Tracy Kidder
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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 ac…
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Print BooksBiographyEducationAwardsNonfictionEducation BiographyEducational Theory, Research & HistoryEducational Levels & SettingsTeaching & Teacher TrainingTeachers - General & Miscellaneous - BiographyEducational Aims & ObjectivesElementary EducationTeaching - General & Miscellaneous1981-1990->RFK Book AwardJournalism & Political Book AwardsRobert F. Kennedy Book AwardPrevious Winners - Robert F. Kennedy Book Award


