National Service: A Promise to Keep

By Donald J. Eberly

Tracy Kidder -- the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Soul of a New Machine and the extraordinary national bestseller House -- spent nine months in Mrs. Zajac's fifth-grade classroom in the depressed "Flats" of Holyoke, Massachusetts. For an entire year he lived among twenty schoolchildren and their indomitable, compassionate teacher -- sharings their joys, their catastrophes, and their small but essential triumphs. As a result, he has written a revealing, remarkably poignant account of education in America . . . and his most memorable, emotionally charged, and important book to date.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0960581839
• ISBN13: 9780960581832
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: John Alden Books
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.0" x 6.5"