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Sounds like Kozol all the way. Heartbreaking yet realistic. I was the same age as Lafayette-we might as well have been on different planets. I appreciate that Kotlowitz spoke kindly of teachers...he gets it.
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Powerful book about the realities of life and the disadvantages faced by impoverished children growing up in Chicago housing projects.
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