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Among Schoolchildren

by Tracy Kidder

A year inside a fifth-grade classroom

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Awards & Recognition

  • Author recognition

    Author of an extraordinary national bestseller

    The supplied metadata describes Tracy Kidder's House as an extraordinary national bestseller; this recognition i...

  • Critical praise

    Praised by The New York Times Book Review

    Attributed praise describes the book as an account marked by the author's genuine love, delight, and celebration...

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A year inside a fifth-grade classroom

Tracy Kidder’s account is grounded in nine months spent observing Mrs. Zajac’s fifth-grade classroom in Holyoke, Massachusetts, and follows the school year among the teacher and twenty pupils. The setting is the city’s economically depressed “Flats,” giving the classroom’s daily experiences a clear social context. Kidder’s focus on shared joys, setbacks, and small triumphs makes this an account of education as lived day to day, through the relationships and circumstances of one particular class.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in elementary education and classroom life.
  • Those seeking a nonfiction account centered on a teacher, her pupils, and their school year.
  • Readers interested in education in an economically disadvantaged community.

Themes

Elementary educationTeacher-student relationshipsSchool and communityEconomic hardship

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Book overview

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

"Among School Children is 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." --New York Times Book Review

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--sharing 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.

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