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.