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There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America

Alex Kotlowitz

One of the surprise bestsellers of 1991, this is the moving & powerful account of two remarkable boys struggling to survive in Chicago's Henry Horner Homes, a public housing complex disfigured by crime & neglect. "Alex Kotlowitz joins the ranks of the important few writers on the subject of urban poverty." This is the moving and powerful account of two remarkable boys struggling to survive in Chicago's Henry Horner Homes, a public housing complex disfigured by crime and neglect.

Society & CultureSociety & Culture · high confidenceSociety & Culture81 signalsLlm Classifier: Society & Culture -> Society & CultureOpen Library: Inner cities -> Society & CultureOpen Library: Family -> Society & CultureClass, Poverty & InequalityCrime, Policing & ViolenceHousing, Cities & Urban LifeLiterature & Writers

Award History

1 wins · 1 total

AwardYearResultCategory / Notes
Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism1992WinnerSecondary source
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  1. 01 Central figures

    None extracted with sufficient confidence.

  2. 02 Central places

    • Chicago's Henry Horner Homes78%

  3. 03 Suggested argument

    No argument inferred with sufficient confidence.

  4. 04 Reading orientation

    30 / 100 academic

    Serious trade

    An estimate of intended readership and scholarly apparatus—not quality or importance.

Confidence percentages are the model's own estimates. Profile confidence: 64%.