Amazing Grace

By - Kozol, Jonathan

Floor - Floor 1

ISBN 10 - 0060976977

ISBN 13 - 9780060976972

Book Status - 1 Qnty Available with us.

Subject - Poor children

Shelf No - 19

Call Number - 362.7097 KOZ

Physical Description - 284 pages; Illustration 24 cm

Notes - Includes Index

Book Information

The children in this book defy the stereotypes of urban youth too frequently presented by the media. Tender, generous and often religiously devout, they speak with eloquence and honesty about the poverty and racial isolation that have wounded but not hardened them. The book does not romanticize or soften the effects of violence and sickness. One fourth of the child-bearing women in the neighborhoods where these children live test positive for HIV. Pediatric AIDs, life-consuming fires and gang rivalries take a high toll. Several children die during the year in which this narrative takes place. A gently written work, Amazing Grace asks questions that are at once political and theological. What is the value of a child's life? What exactly do we plan to do with those whom we appear to have defined as economically and humanly superfluous? How cold -- how cruel, how tough -- do we dare be?

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