{"product_id":"book-ap7k","title":"Among Schoolchildren","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Pulitzer Prize-winning author's classic, \"brilliantly illuminated\" account of education in America (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMrs. Zajac is feisty, funny, and tough. She likes to call herself an \"old-lady teacher.\" (She is thirty-four.) Around Kelly School, she is infamous for her discipline: \"She is mean, bro,\" says one of her students. But children love her, and so will the reader of this extraordinarily moving book by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eHouse\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Soul of a New Machine\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTracy Kidder spent nine months in Mrs. Zajac's fifth-grade classroom in a depressed area of Holyoke, Massachusetts. Living among the twenty schoolchildren and their indomitable teacher, he shared their joys, catastrophes, and small but essential triumphs. His resulting \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller is a revelatory and remarkably poignant account of an inner-city school that \"erupts with passionate life,\" and a close-up examination of what is wrong—and right—with education in America (\u003ci\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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.\" —\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Brilliance Audio","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49391411069232,"sku":"BDap7k","price":35.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/285478-ap7k-Square.jpg?v=1735292189","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-ap7k","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}