Description: Brimming with the exuberance and innocence of childhood, Among School Children is the intense and affecting chronicle of a Holyoke, Massachusetts, fifth-grade teacher's passionate dedication to the children in her classroom.#Houghton Mifflin.
Review Quotes:
"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. He has never used his talent so well." - New York Times Book Review
"Splendid. . . smooth, informal, extraordinarily readable. . . . A book as exciting as it is eye-opening." - Chicago Sun-Times
"Erupts with passionate life." - USA Today
"Kidder's close observations tie us into the emotional networks that make up classroom life. . . . A wonderful, compassionate book about teaching." - Chicago Tribune
"Kidder brilliantly illuminates the reasons for hope and the reasons for despair that sit side by side, or share a desk, in schoolrooms across the nation." - Newsday