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Deborah Hopkinson Shutting Out the Sky: Life in the Tenements of New York, 1880-1924.

Publication: The Horn Book Magazine
Publication Date: 01-JAN-04
Format: Online - approximately 210 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Deborah Hopkinson Shutting Out the Sky: Life in the Tenements of New York, 1880-1924.(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)

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134 pp. Orchard/Scholastic 10/03 ISBN 0-439-37590-8 17.95 (Intermediate, Middle School)

Hopkinson describes Jacob Riis's 1890 book exposing the deplorable conditions of New York City tenement housing as having "such powerful pictures and words that readers were carried directly into the world of the tenements." The same can be said...

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