Among Schoolchildren [Paperback]

Tracy Kidder -- the Pulitzer Prize-winning author ofThe Soul of a New Machineand the extraordinary national bestsellerHouse-- 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 -- sharings 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.