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Kotlowitz, Alex There Are No Children Here ISBN 13: 9780385265263

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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.
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There Are No Children Here, the true story of brothers Lafeyette and Pharoah Rivers, ages 11 and 9 at the start, brings home the horror of trying to make it in a violence-ridden public housing project. The boys live in a gang-plagued war zone on Chicago's West Side, literally learning how to dodge bullets the way kids in the suburbs learn to chase baseballs. "If I grow up, I'd like to be a bus driver," says Lafeyette at one point. That's if, not when--spoken with the complete innocence of a child. The book's title comes from a comment made by the brothers' mother as she and author Alex Kotlowitz contemplate the challenges of living in such a hostile environment: "There are no children here," she says. "They've seen too much to be children." This book humanizes the problem of inner-city pathology, makes readers care about Lafeyette and Pharoah more than they may expect to, and offers a sliver of hope buried deep within a world of chaos.
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The best-selling, heartbreaking yet inspiring story of two young brothers in Chicago's inner city--a searing look at the other America, where drugs, despair, and death are challenged daily by the resilient courage of youth.

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  • PublisherNan A. Talese
  • Publication date1991
  • ISBN 10 0385265263
  • ISBN 13 9780385265263
  • BindingHardcover
  • Edition number1
  • Number of pages324
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