There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in The Other America (Helen Bernstein Book Award)

by Alex Kotlowitz

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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.
  • ISBN10 0385265565
  • ISBN13 9780385265560
  • Publish Date 5 January 1992 (first published 1 February 1991)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Out of Print 24 November 2015
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group