Social Themes - Poverty & Homelessness

  • The Can Man

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    To earn money, a young boy decides to collect and redeem empty soft drink cans, but ends up giving away his money to help a local homeless man.

    Tim’s birthday is just a week away, and more than anythin

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    • Author: Williams, Laura E.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 40
    • Publish Date: August 01 2017
    • ISBN10: 1620145774
    • Language: English
  • Y Entonces, ?Boom! / And Then, Boom!

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    Amazon Mejores libros para ni?os del 2024 (hasta ahora)

    Esta es la historia de Joe, un muchacho tan valiente como sus superh?roes favoritos. La autora de la aclamada Estrella de mar regresa con otra e

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    • Author: Fipps, Lisa
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 260
    • Publish Date: June 25 2024
    • ISBN10: 9798890980991
    • Language: Spanish
  • Toby Finds a Home: A story about homelessness

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    A homeless cat named Toby roams the streets of Portland, Oregon in search of food and friendship. One afternoon, Toby’s nose leads him to a warm and welcoming cafe, where people from all walks of life

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    • Author: Showers, Marie
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 34
    • Publish Date: August 19 2024
    • ISBN10: 9798990958302
    • Language: English
  • Una Nueva Cosecha (a New Harvest)

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    There are people who, for whatever reason, lose everything. Rodrigo was one of them. But there was one thing he didn’t lose, and that was hope.

    Rodrigo has lost his family home due to a devastating tor

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    • Author: Expósito Escalona, Cristina
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 28
    • Publish Date: October 10 2021
    • ISBN10: 8418302305
    • Language: Spanish
  • My Beautiful Birds

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    A New York Times Notable Children’s Books selection. The moving story of one boy’s refugee experience in the Syrian Civil War and the birds who help him on the road to emotional healing

    Behind Sami, t

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    • Author: del Rizzo, Suzanne
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 32
    • Publish Date: March 08 2017
    • ISBN10: 1772780103
    • Language: English
  • Uncle Wille and the Soup Kitchen

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    A gentle and age-appropiate introduction to two key issues of our time–hunger and homelessness–from a kid’s point of view. This empathy-building book is good for sharing at home or in a classroom.

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    • Series: Reading Rainbow Books
    • Author: DiSalvo-Ryan, Dyanne
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 32
    • Publish Date: April 24 1997
    • ISBN10: 0688152856
    • Language: English
  • Adrian Simcox Does Not Have a Horse

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    A classic in the making, this heartwarming story about empathy and imagination is one that families will treasure for years to come.

    Adrian Simcox tells anyone who will listen that he has a horse–the

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    • Author: Campbell, Marcy
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 40
    • Publish Date: August 14 2018
    • ISBN10: 0735230374
    • Language: English
  • The Cedarville Shop and the Wheelbarrow Swap

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    A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection

    From the award-winning author of Small Mercies, named a Best Middle-Grade Book of 2020 by Kirkus Reviews

    “I’ve decided that some people put out fires and l

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    • Author: Krone, Bridget
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 188
    • Publish Date: October 18 2022
    • ISBN10: 1946395668
    • Language: English
  • Carry Me Home

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    “A poignant and powerful reminder that homelessness is not hopelessness.” –Kirby Larson, author of Newbery Honor book Hattie Big Sky

    Two sisters struggle to keep their father’s disappearance a secre

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    • Author: Fox, Janet
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 208
    • Publish Date: August 24 2021
    • ISBN10: 1534485082
    • Language: English
  • And Then, Boom!

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    A gripping new novel in verse by the author of the Printz Honor-winning Starfish, featuring a poverty-stricken boy who bravely rides out all the storms life keeps throwing at him

    Joe Oak is used to li

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    • Author: Fipps, Lisa
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: May 07 2024
    • ISBN10: 059340632X
    • Language: English
  • Just Juice

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    Juice Faulstich lives with her pa and ma and four sisters in the North Carolina hills. Working with her hands comes easy to Juice, but not school. This year, she’s back again in Miss Hamble’s third gr… [more below]

    • Series: Scholastic Signature
    • Author: Hesse, Karen
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 144
    • Publish Date: November 01 1999
    • ISBN10: 0590033832
    • Language: English
  • Heroes Like Us: Two Stories: The Day We Met the Queen; The Great Food Bank Heist

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    From Onjali Q. Rauf, acclaimed author of The Boy At the Back of the Class, come two poignant tales of modern-day heroism, featuring supermarket theives, a visit with the Queen, and plenty of laughs!

    T

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    • Author: Ra?f, Onjali Q
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 176
    • Publish Date: November 15 2022
    • ISBN10: 0593488199
    • Language: English
  • A Letter to Mrs. Roosevelt

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    Eleven-year-old Margo Bandini has never been afraid of anything. Her life in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, with Mama and Papa and her little brother, Charlie, has always felt secure. But it’s 1933, and the… [more below]

    • Author: Coco De Young, C.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: August 08 2000
    • ISBN10: 0440415292
    • Language: English
  • Carry Me Home

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    “A poignant and powerful reminder that homelessness is not hopelessness.” –Kirby Larson, author of Newbery Honor book Hattie Big Sky

    Two sisters struggle to keep their father’s disappearance a secre

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    • Author: Fox, Janet
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 208
    • Publish Date: August 16 2022
    • ISBN10: 1534485090
    • Language: English
  • A Single Shard

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    The Newbery Medal-winning tale of an orphan boy whose dream of becoming a master potter leads to unforeseen adventure in ancient Korea.

    Tree-ear is an orphan boy in a 12th-century Korean village renown

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    • Author: Park, Linda Sue
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 160
    • Publish Date: April 23 2001
    • ISBN10: 0395978270
    • Language: English
  • The Benefits of Being an Octopus

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    Edutopia’s “25 Essential Middle School Reads from the Last Decade,” NPR Best Book of 2018, Bank Street List for Best Children’s Books of 2019, Named to the Vermont Dorothy Canfield Fisher List, Maine’[more below]

    • Author: Braden, Ann
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: September 04 2018
    • ISBN10: 1510737480
    • Language: English
  • Tune It Out

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    From the author of the acclaimed Roll with It comes a moving novel about a girl with a sensory processing disorder who has to find her own voice after her whole world turns upside down.

    Lou Montgomery

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    • Author: Sumner, Jamie
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 304
    • Publish Date: August 31 2021
    • ISBN10: 1534457011
    • Language: English
  • The Library Bus

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    Author Bahram Rahman grew up in Afghanistan during years of civil war and the restrictive Taliban regime of 1996-2001. He wrote The Library Bus to tell new generations about the struggles of women who

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    • Author: Rahman, Bahram
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 32
    • Publish Date: November 24 2020
    • ISBN10: 1772781010
    • Language: English
  • Home for Grace

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    When a woman appears with a sleeping bag, living in a shop doorway, Jess is full of questions. Where is her home? Why did she leave? And what will happen when the snow comes?

    Inspired by a case of unki

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    • Author: White, Kathryn
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 32
    • Publish Date: October 03 2023
    • ISBN10: 9798765608326
    • Language: English
  • Stay

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    Fans of Pax and A Dog’s Way Home will love this heartwarming story of a girl living in a shelter and the homeless dog she’s determined to reunite with his family, now available in paperback.

    Piper’s li

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    • Author: Pyron, Bobbie
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 320
    • Publish Date: May 05 2020
    • ISBN10: 0062839233
    • Language: English
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