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  • The Theft of Memory

    Losing My Father, One Day at a Time

    A Library Journal Best Book of 2015National Book Award winner Jonathan Kozol is best known for his fifty years of work among our nation’s poorest and most vulnerable children. Now, in the most personal book of his career, he tells the story of his father’s life and work as a nationally noted specialist in disorders of the brain and his astonishing ability, at the onset of Alzheimer’s disease, to ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Savage Inequalities

    Children in America's Schools

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “An impassioned book, laced with anger and indignation, about how our public education system scorns so many of our children.”—The New York Times Book ReviewIn 1988, Jonathan Kozol set off to spend time with children in the American public education system. For two years, he visited schools in neighborhoods across the country, from Illinois to Washington, D.C., and from ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Fire in the Ashes

    Twenty-Five Years Among the Poorest Children in America

    In this powerful and culminating work about a group of inner-city children he has known for many years, Jonathan Kozol returns to the scene of his prize-winning books Rachel and Her Children and Amazing Grace, and to the children he has vividly portrayed, to share with us their fascinating journeys and unexpected victories as they grow into adulthood.For nearly fifty years Jonathan has pricked the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Ordinary Resurrections

    Children in the Years of Hope

    In a stirring departure from his earlier work, Jonathan Kozol has written his most personal and hopeful book to date, an energized and unexpected answer to the bleakness of Death at an Early Age, the prize-winning classic that he published more than 30 years ago.Like his most recent book, Amazing Grace, this work also takes place in New York's South Bronx; but it is a markedly different book in ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Shame of the Nation

    The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America

    “The nation needs to be confronted with the crime that we’re committing and the promises we are betraying. This is a book about betrayal of the young, who have no power to defend themselves. It is not intended to make readers comfortable.”Over the past several years, Jonathan Kozol has visited nearly 60 public schools. Virtually everywhere, he finds that conditions have grown worse for inner-city ... Read more

    Was $11.99 USD Now $9.99 USD

  • Amazing Grace

    The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation

    The author of Savage Inequalities, a New York Times best-seller, and Rachel and Her Children, winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, tells the stories of a handful of children who have--through the love and support of their families and dedicated community leaders--not yet lost their battle with the perils of life in America's most hopeless, helpless, and dangerous neighborhoods. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • We Shall Not Bow Down

    Children of Color Under Siege: An Invocation to Resistance

    An eloquent and passionate call for educational transformation.In the culminating work of his career, groundbreaking educator Jonathan Kozol goes back into urban schools, where racial isolation is at the highest level since he became a teacher and is now compounded by a new regime of punitive instruction and coercive uniformity that is deemed to be appropriate for children who are said to be ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Letters to a Young Teacher

    “This remarkable book is a testament to teachers who not only respect and advocate for children on a daily basis but who are the necessary guardians of the spirit. Every citizen who cares about the future of our children ought to read this.”—Eric Carle, author of The Very Hungry Caterpillar and other classic works for children“Kozol’s love for his students is as joyful and genuine as his critiques ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Rachel and Her Children

    Homeless Families in America

    "Extraordinarily affecting....A very important book....To read and remember the stories in this book, to take them to heart, is to be called as a witness."THE BOSTON GLOBEThere is no safety net for the millions of heartbroken refugees from the American Dream, scattered helplessly in any city you can name. RACHEL AND HER CHILDREN is an unforgettable record for humanity, of the desperate voices of ... Read more

    Was $14.99 USD Now $7.99 USD

  • Illiterate America

    It is startling and it is shaming: in a country that prides itself on being among the most enlightened in the world, 25 million American adults cannot read the poison warnings on a can of pesticide, a letter from their child’s teacher, or the front page of a newspaper. An additional 35 million read below the level needed to function successfully in our society. The United States ranks forty-ninth ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Theft of Memory

    Losing My Father, One Day at a Time

    Narrated by Sean Runnette ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 33 min

    National Book Award winner Jonathan Kozol is best known for his fifty years of work among our nation’s poorest and most vulnerable children. Now, in the most personal book of his career, he tells the story of his father’s life and work as a nationally noted specialist in disorders of the brain and his astonishing ability, at the onset of Alzheimer’s disease, to explain the causes of his sickness ... Read more

    $19.95 USD

  • Audiobook

    Letters to a Young Teacher

    Narrated by David Drummond ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 37 min

    In these affectionate letters to Francesca, a first grade teacher at an inner-city school in Boston, Jonathan Kozol vividly describes his repeated visits to her classroom while, under Francesca's likably irreverent questioning, also revealing his own most personal stories of the years that he has spent in public schools.Letters to a Young Teacher reignites a number of the controversial issues that ... Read more

    $15.99 USD