There Are No Children Here The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America

Alex Kotlowitz, Dion Graham

eAudio - 2010

This national bestseller chronicles the true story of two brothers coming of age in the Henry Horner public housing complex in Chicago. Lafeyette and Pharoah Rivers are eleven and nine years old when the story begins in the summer of 1987. Living with their mother and six siblings, they struggle against grinding poverty, gun violence, gang influences, overzealous police officers, and overburdened and neglectful bureaucracies. Immersed in their lives for two years, Kotlowitz brings us this classic rendering of growing up poor in America's cities. There Are No Children Here was selected by the New York Public Library as one of the 150 most important books of the twentieth century. It was later made into a television movie for ABC, produ...ced by and starring Oprah Winfrey.

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Published
Blackstone Publishing
Language
English
Main Authors
Alex Kotlowitz, Dion Graham
Online Access
Overdrive Resource Page
Format
MP3 audiobook, OverDrive Listen audiobook
MP3 audiobook
File Size309 GB
Parts10
ISBN9781481586153
Release Date4/20/2010
OverDrive Listen audiobook
File Size309 GB
ISBN9781481586153
Release Date4/20/2010