Heather G. reviewed on 5/26/2006 + 13 more book reviews

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...and his most memorable, emotionally charged, and important book to date.

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