Fire in the Ashes: Twenty-five Years Among the Poorest Children in America
- ISBN-10
- 1400052475
- ISBN-13
- 9781400052479
- Series
- Fire in the Ashes
- Category
- Social Science
- Pages
- 354
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013-09-03
- Publisher
- Crown Publishing Group (NY)
- Author
- Jonathan Kozol
Description
The author of the National Book Award-winning Rachel and Her Children and Amazing Grace continues the personal journeys of inner-city youths who have struggled to work through formidable racial and economic inequalities while approaching adulthood. 60,000 first printing.
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Other editions
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- 2012-03-15
- 336 pages
- Ebook
- University of Washington Press
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- 2005
- 350 pages
- Paperback
- University of Washington Press
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