{"product_id":"9781608194957","title":"Hope Against Hope: Three Schools, One City, and the Struggle to Educate America's Children","description":"Geraldlynn is a lively, astute 14-year-old. Her family, displaced by Hurricane Katrina, returns home to find a radically altered public education system. Geraldlynns parents hope their daughter's new school will prepare her college-but the teenager has ideals and ambitions of her own. ?\u003cbr\u003e?\u003cbr\u003eAidan is a fresh-faced Harvard grad drawn to New Orleans by the possibility of bringing change to a flood-ravaged city. He teaches at an ambitious charter school with a group of newcomers determined to show the world they can use science, data, and hard work to build a model school. ?\u003cbr\u003e?\u003cbr\u003eMary Laurie is a veteran educator who becomes principal of one of the first public high schools to reopen after Katrina. Laurie and her staff find they must fight each day not only to educate the city's teenagers, but to keep the Walker community safe and whole. ?\u003cbr\u003e?\u003cbr\u003eIn this powerful narrative non-fiction debut, the lives of these three characters provide readers with a vivid and sobering portrait of education in twenty-first-century America. \u003ci\u003eHope Against Hope\u003c\/i\u003e works in the same tradition as \u003ci\u003eRandom Family\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThere Are No Children Here\u003c\/i\u003e to capture the challenges of growing up and learning in a troubled world.","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47163415232752,"sku":"9781608194957","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781608194957_p0.jpg?v=1763838630","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781608194957","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}