Ordinary Resurrections: Children in the Years of Hope

Jonathan Kozol's books have become touchstones of the American conscience. In Ordinary Resurrections, he spends four years in the South Bronx with children who have become his friends at a badly underfunded but enlightened public school. A fascinating narrative of daily urban life, Ordinary Resurrections gives a human face to poverty and racial isolation, and provides a stirring testimony to the courage and resilience of the young. Sometimes playful, sometimes jubilantly funny, and sometimes profoundly sad, these are sensitive children--complex and morally insightful--and their ethical vitality denounces and subverts the racially charged labels that the world of grown-up expertise too frequently assigns to them.
Yet another classic case of unblinking social observation from one of the finest writers ever to work in the genre, this is a piercing discernment of right and wrong, of hope and despair--from our nation's corridors of power to its poorest city streets.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
Published: 07/24/2012
ISBN: 9780770435677
Pages: 416
Weight: 0.69lbs
Size: 8.02h x 5.22w x 0.91d
Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 46851 / Ordinary Resurrections: Children in the Years of Hope
Reading Level: 7.2 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 16