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There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America is a 1992 biography by Alex Kotlowitz that describes the experiences of two brothers growing up in Chicago's Henry Horner Homes. It won the Carl Sandburg award.
Jan 1, 2001 · There are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America. Alex Kotlowitz. 4.30. 15,542 ratings1,125 reviews. This is the moving and powerful account of two remarkable boys struggling to survive in Chicago's Henry Horner Homes, a public housing complex disfigured by crime and neglect.
For two years, from the summers of 1987 to 1989, journalist Alex Kotlowitz follows the lives of two young children, Lafeyette and Pharoah Rivers, who live in a public housing complex in Chicago. When Kotlowitz first writes about them, Pharoah is nine and Lafeyette twelve. They live at the Henry Horner Homes (which they usually refer to as ...
Jan 5, 1992 · The book, There Are No Children Here, tells the true story of two boys growing up in the public housing projects of Chicago. Although the story takes place in the 1980’s it is still very relevant to the problems in urban poverty today. The book delves into a world of drugs, gangs, and violence.
Nov 30, 2011 · NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A moving and powerful account by an acclaimed journalist that "informs the heart. [This] meticulous portrait of two boys in a Chicago housing project...
Nov 28, 1993 · There Are No Children Here: Directed by Anita W. Addison. With Oprah Winfrey, Keith David, Mark Lane, Norman D. Golden II. From Publishers Weekly The devastating story of brothers Lafayette and Pharoah Rivers, children of the Chicago ghetto, is powerfully told here by Kotlowitz, a Wall Street Journal reporter who first met the boys in 1985 when ...
About There Are No Children Here. NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A moving and powerful account by an acclaimed journalist that “informs the heart. [This] meticulous portrait of two boys in a Chicago housing project shows how much heroism is required to survive, let alone escape” (The New York Times).
