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Schools Out For Summer By Anna Quindlen Summary

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Child Hunger

In the essay School’s Out For Summer by Anna Quindlen, she talks about a very serious topic that is going on in the world today. Quindlen identifies the problem with child hunger in the world and she supports her evidence with facts and statistics. Quindlen chases a good topic because this has been a very serious problem for a while.

Quindlen tells how that child hunger has become a big problem for some families. She talks about how the children who don’t eat much at home usually eat Breakfast and lunch at school, to fill them up, but when school is out in the summer hunger becomes a big issue for the children because they don’t have any food to eat,“But that sort of summer has given way to something more difficult”. Some
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