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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 account of education in America . . . and his most memorable, emotionally charged, and important book to date.
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- Nonfiction >> Education >> General
- Nonfiction >> Education >> Elementary School
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Carol G. (I love all of Tracy Kidder's books. This was interesting and a good read.
Stephanie P. (Very intriguing stories from a teacher's perspective.
Mrs. Zajac teaches at Kelly School and is known as "mean." She battles against some of the worst social problems in society, acted out in the lives of "her" children.
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