03156cam a2200601 4500 2675060069 TxAuBib 20260205120000.0 ||||||s1989||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780547524061 0547524064 B003ZSISXA Amazon 48b67b88-2251-4fa0-b6d5-8263a28e1b07 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 3787782 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Kidder, Tracy. Among School Children [Libby eBook]. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1989. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read, Filesize: 582kB. truth behind american education. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. what happens in school. students and teachers. relatable characters. education in America. satisfying endings. uplifting stories. Social problems. Domestic Drama. schoolteachers. Coming of age. bildungsroman. good vs evil. Life changes. Page Turner. Education. realistic. Teachers. students. engaging. realism. lively. school. civic. The Pulitzer Prize–winning author's classic, "brilliantly illuminated" account of education in America (TheNew York Times Book Review). Mrs. Zajac is feisty, funny, and tough. She likes to call herself an "old-lady teacher." (She is thirty-four.) Around Kelly School, she is infamous for her discipline: "She is mean, bro," says one of her students. But children love her, and so will the reader of this extraordinarily moving book by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of House and The Soul of a New Machine. Tracy Kidder spent nine months in Mrs. Zajac's fifth-grade classroom in a depressed area of Holyoke, Massachusetts. Living among the twenty schoolchildren and their indomitable teacher, he shared their joys, catastrophes, and small but essential triumphs. His resulting New York Times bestseller is a revelatory and remarkably poignant account of an inner-city school that "erupts with passionate life," and a close-up examination of what is wrong—and right—with education in America (USA Today). "More than a book about needy children and a valiant teacher; it is full of the author's genuine love, delight and celebration of the human condition. He has never used his talent so well." —The New York Times. Biography & Autobiography. Nonfiction. Education. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2026-02-04 20:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=48b67b88-2251-4fa0-b6d5-8263a28e1b07&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=48b67b88-2251-4fa0-b6d5-8263a28e1b07&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read) BTCLS