There Are No Children Here There Are No Children Here, by Alex Kotlowitz, is about kids who live in the Henry Horner Projects. They live in extreme poverty and surrounded by danger. I live in Deerfield, where there is very little violence and for my family, money is not a problem. Even though there are differences in our lives we still go through the same emotions such as dreams and disappointment. In There Are No Children Here, Pharoah dreamed that he would win the spelling bee. He spent hours in his room studying the words for the spelling bee. Instead of going out Pharoah would go to his room and practice both the spelling of words and controlling his studer. He had gone throu