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Sep 30, 2021 · By Andrea Elliott. Best we can tell, there are 1.38 million homeless schoolchildren in the United States. About one in 12 live in New York City. Several years ago, readers of this paper got to...
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Oct 8, 2021 · The book takes on poverty, homelessness, racism, addiction, hunger, and more as they shape the lives of one remarkable girl and her family. The invisible child of the title is Dasani Coates.
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Book Summary. A work of luminous and riveting prose, Elliott's Invisible Child reads like a page-turning novel. It is an astonishing story about the power of resilience, the importance of family and the cost of inequality—told through the crucible of one remarkable girl.
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Oct 5, 2021 · Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival, and Hope in an American City is a 2021 nonfiction book by New York Times journalist Andrea Elliott. It was awarded the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction. The book is centered around Dasani, an African American child growing up in poverty in New York City. Elliott followed Dasani and her family for ...
By turns heartbreaking and revelatory, provocative and inspiring, Invisible Child tells an astonishing story about the power of resilience, the importance of family, and the cost of inequality.
Oct 5, 2021 · Winner of the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. Invisible Child follows eight years in the life of a homeless girl named Dasani. Elliott weaves the story of Dasani's childhood with the history of her family, tracing the passage of their ancestors from slavery to the Great Migration north. As Dasani comes of age, the homeless crisis in ...
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Oct 5, 2021 · A Pulitzer Prize–winning New York Times reporter offers an immersive portrait of the life of a fearless girl in a tightknit but desperately impoverished family of 10. Dasani Coates grew up in a family so poor, her stepfather once pawned his gold teeth to get by until their welfare benefits arrived. In this moving but occasionally flat ...
