Fire in the ashes twenty-five years among the poorest children in America
"For nearly fifty years Jonathan has pricked the conscience of his readers by laying bare the savage inequalities inflicted upon children for no reason but the accident of being born to poverty within a wealthy nation. A winner of the National Book Award, the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, and c...
| Main Author: | Kozol, Jonathan. |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Crown Pub.,
c2012.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- The shadow of the past. The journey begins ; Eric and his sister ; Pietro and his children ; Silvio : invincible ; Alice Washington : the details of life
- A bright shining light. Survivors ; The boy who ate a giant bag of cookies while he walked me around the neighborhood, and his very interesting mom ; Pineapple comes of age (part one) ; Pineapple in all her glory (and still bossing me around) ; A life of the mind (Jeremy, part one)
- No easy victories (Jeremy, part two)
- The killing fields
- Number our days
- Pineapple has a few more things to say.