{"product_id":"9780547524061","title":"Among Schoolchildren","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe Pulitzer Prize–winning author’s classic, “brilliantly illuminated” account of education in America (\u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Mrs. 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.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Tracy 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).\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\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","brand":"Houghton Mifflin Harcourt","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47123741933808,"sku":"9780547524061","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780547524061_p0.jpg?v=1769896172","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780547524061","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}