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    <body><![CDATA[<br/>I realize now I've been reading a lot of books about the old Chicago projects.  Many of them tend to blur together into one tangled mess of shootings, pregnancies, drugs, and live-in fourth cousins, but this one broke my heart.<br/><br/>Instead of trying to detail every catastrophic news blu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56055997">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Grades: 6th - 8th (and up)<br/><br/>This story tells of the true story of two brothers growing up in the Henry Horner projects of Chicago over a two year period. It is set in the Horner Homes public housing district of Chicago. Brothers Lafeyette and Pharoah Rivers, along with their mother and sib...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81056974">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I had to pick a book to read for my public health class and this was it.  This book not only describes the unhealthy lives of the children the book focuses on, but also highlights the breakdown of the entire community in which they live.  For anyone who thinks that being poor is a crime OR that it i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40307671">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[If you're looking for a book to make you grateful for all the things you have and were raised with, this is it.  It is a non-fiction account of a Wall Street Journal reporter who followed two boys and their family in urban Chicago in the late 1980's.  It's amazing what some people have to endure jus...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76601798">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[For quite a while into reading this book, it was overshadowed by recent readings of Tracy Kidder books. As I sat and read over the last half in one sitting, perhaps I found myself in another place and got into it more. Perhaps if the violence and trials that children growing up in poor areas hasn't ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77447362">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I worked with kids at another Chicago project (Cabrini-Green) this year so this book really struck a chord. I'm so glad that I read this, because reading a novel-length narrative of these two children's lives gave a big picture perspective on their lives that individual articles I've read about this...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63617436">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was really eye opening for me, as I am sure it is for many people. It is hard to say you enjoy reading a book like this, as it is very hard to read. I took my time so that I could reflect on what I had just read.<br/><br/>I work in an urban school district and see kids struggling every d...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50293520">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is very well researched and well written.  Alex Kotlowitz takes the story of 2 young boys and lets us into their lives.  Growing up in Chicago's project's, (Henry Horner), you get a taste of what is like for these 2 brother's as they deal with every day life.  With the strength of their mo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74605764">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the story of two brothers growing up in the projects in Chicago in the late 80's.  It is tough reading at times because what they go through is scary, rough, &amp; dangerous.  <br/><br/>But, this book is so well researched.  The author did a fantastic job of showing what it is really like to g...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53818223">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's hard to say you 'really liked' a book that covers such deep suffering and conflict. This is the story of two boys and their mother, stuck in the Henry Hornor Homes project in Chicago.<br/><br/>I love and live near the city of the Chicago, so the setting felt right in my back yard. The story i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34859110">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A story of two young brothers growing up in an infamous project in Chicago known as Horner Homes.  The book spans 4 years and deals mostly with describing how the boys are affected by poverty, violence, drugs, gangs and run-ins with the police.  Won the Robert F. Kennedy Award for Journalism.<br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34656664">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I finally got around to reading this 1991 book, just before a Chicago-centric book club I attend discussed Kotlowitz's fascinating 2004 book Never a City So Real. Both are excellent at showing the sides of Chicago that aren't glittery and tourist-friendly, but this one is far more disturbing, of cou...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7186053">more...</a>]]></body>
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