LoginThere Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in The Other America
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There Are No Children Here, the true story of brothers Lafeyette and Pharoah Rivers, ages 11 and 9 at the start, brings home the horror of trying to make it in a violence-ridden public housing project. The boys live in a gang-plagued war zone on Chicago's West Side, literally learning how to dodge bullets the way kids in the suburbs learn to chase baseballs. "If I grow up, I'd like to be a bus driver," says Lafeyette at one point. That's if, not when--spoken with the complete innocence of a child. The book's title comes from a comment made by the brothers' mother as she and author Alex Kotlowitz
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Manufacturer: Doubleday
Release date: 5 January 1992
ISBN-10 : 0385265565 | ISBN-13: 9780385265560
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Release date: 5 January 1992
ISBN-10 : 0385265565 | ISBN-13: 9780385265560
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