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Summary Of School's Out For Summer By Anna Quindlen
THE HUNGER PROBLEM

In the story ‘School's Out for Summer’ Anna Quindlen writes a newspaper on child hunger and how we should fix it. She explains what we should do to help. She explains that some of it has to do with the homeless and poor. She explains ‘somes kids don't get enough to eat, no matter what people want to tell themselves,do the math;during the the rest of the year 15 million students get free or cut-rate lunches at school’.
I think that she wrote this essay to inform people about the horrible ways people that don't get a noff food and to tell why they should put an end to this.

She explains what we should do to help. People have made summer lunch programs to those who got food for their children. Some parents go hungry because

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