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  Title

  Fire in the ashes : twenty-five years among the poorest children in America

  Author

  Kozol, Jonathan.  

  Publisher:

  Crown,

  Pub date:

  c2012.

  Pages:

  x, 354 p. ;

  ISBN:

  9781400052462

  Item info:

  1 copy available at Aurora Campus.
  

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    Aurora Campus	Copies	Material	Location	Map
    HV741 .K674 2012	1	Book	Available, On shelf

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  ISBN:

  9781400052462 (hbk.)

  ISBN:

  1400052467 (hbk.)

  ISBN:

  9780770435950 (ebk.)

  ISBN:

  0770435955 (ebk.)

  Personal Author:

  Kozol, Jonathan.

  Title:

  Fire in the ashes : twenty-five years among the poorest children in America / Jonathan Kozol.

  Edition:

  1st ed.

  Publication info:

  New York : Crown, c2012.

  Physical description:

  x, 354 p. ; 25 cm.

  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.

  Summary:

  Kozol returns to the scene of his prize-winning books Rachel and her children and Amazing Grace, and to the children he's portrayed there, to share their journeys and unexpected victories as they grow into adulthood.

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  AURORA

  Subject term:

  Poor children--United States.

  Subject term:

  Poor families--United States.

  Subject term:

  Child welfare--United States.

  Subject term:

  Children--United States--Social conditions.

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