Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation

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Crown, Jun 26, 2012 - Social Science - 336 pages
The author of Savage Inequalities, a New York Times best-seller, and Rachel and Her Children, winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, tells the stories of a handful of children who have--through the love and support of their families and dedicated community leaders--not yet lost their battle with the perils of life in America's most hopeless, helpless, and dangerous neighborhoods.
 

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Section 1
1
Section 2
29
Section 3
63
Section 4
105
Section 5
157
Section 6
207
Section 7
263
Section 8
283
Section 9
287
Section 10
289
Section 11
307
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About the author (2012)

Jonathan Kozol is the author of Death at an Early Age (for which he received the National Book Award), Savage InequalitiesAmazing Grace, and other award-winning books about young children and their public schools. He travels and lectures about educational inequality and racial injustice.

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