Poverty & Homelessness
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Cleaning Up
$19.99 Read moreJess finds a secret diary and imagines what it would be like to be a girl who has everything. Will she become so wrapped up in someone else’s life that she misses a chance to create her own?
Jess clea
- Author: Lieberman, Leanne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1773068067
- Language: English
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Community Conversations: Mobilizing the Ideas, Skills, and Passion of Community Organizations, Governments, Businesses, and People
$15.00 Add to cartCommunities around the world are entering a new era of community building. Whether improving economic conditions and reducing poverty, re-energizing citizens and social programs, reducing crime, or re
- Author: Born, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: June 21 2012
- ISBN10: 1927483158
- Language: English
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Poor People
$19.99 Add to cartThat was the simple yet groundbreaking question William T. Vollmann asked in cities and villages around the globe. The result of Vollmann’s fearless inquiry is a view of poverty unlike any previously
- Author: Vollmann, William T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: January 22 2008
- ISBN10: 0060878843
- Language: English
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Bad Witch Burning
$11.99 Add to cartFor fans of Lovecraft Country and Candyman comes a witchy story full of Black girl magic! One girl′s dark ability to summon the dead offers her a chance at a new life, while revealing to her an … [more below]
- Author: Lewis, Jessica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: July 11 2023
- ISBN10: 059317741X
- Language: English
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Not a Crime to Be Poor: The Criminalization of Poverty in America
$26.90 Add to cartAwarded “Special Recognition” by the 2018 Robert F. Kennedy Book & Journalism Awards
Finalist for the American Bar Association’s 2018 Silver Gavel Book Award
Named one of the “10 books to read after you… [more below]
- Author: Edelman, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 02 2019
- ISBN10: 1620975483
- Language: English
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Outta Here
$14.99 Read moreOutta Here is the story of a lively and imaginative small-town teen living with a mom whose pain medication has led to addiction, leaving little money for basics–like food.
Elise’s best friend a- Author: Beddia, Lea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1459417291
- Language: English
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Spin Cycles
$10.00 Add to cartBrilliant, homeless and nearly invisible, a young man wanders through Boston, looking for meaning and hope. Extreme mood swings and an unusual outlook on life make it impossible for him to thrive in m
- Series: Gemma Open Door
- Author: Coe, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 86
- Publish Date: October 15 2014
- ISBN10: 1936846470
- Language: English
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Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope
$16.95 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – With stark poignancy and political dispassion Tightrope addresses the crisis in working-class America while focusing on solutions to mend a half century of governmental failure. … [more below]
- Author: Kristof, Nicholas D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0525564179
- Language: English
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Disrupting Poverty: Five Powerful Classroom Practices
$33.95 Add to cartDrawing upon decades of research and myriad authentic classroom experiences, Kathleen M. Budge and William H. Parrett dispel harmful myths, explain the facts, and urge educators to act against the deb
- Author: Budge, Kathleen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 25 2018
- ISBN10: 1416625275
- Language: English
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The Cost of Bliss
$14.99 Add to cartJane Prince has everything any normal 14-year-old girl would want: an inseparable group of friends, the top grades in her class, name brand clothes, gourmet meals, and a gorgeous house with the approp
- Author: Conkling, Kelsey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 222
- Publish Date: October 01 2023
- ISBN10: 9798218256326
- Language: English
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The Other America
$19.99 Add to cartIn the fifty years since it was published, The Other America has been established as a seminal work of sociology. This anniversary edition includes Michael Harrington’s essays on poverty in the 1970s … [more below]
- Author: Harrington, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: August 01 1997
- ISBN10: 068482678X
- Language: English
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Facing Eviction and Housing Insecurity
$15.99 Add to cartFacing Eviction and Housing Insecurity includes the voices of over fifty men, women, and children who have experienced or witnessed housing injustice. The stories follow the lives of adults and childr
- Author: Rowell, Katherine R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 164
- Publish Date: April 18 2023
- ISBN10: 9798986096131
- Language: English
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Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada’s Quest to Change Harlem and America
$17.99 Add to cartNew York Times bestselling author Paul Tough’s Whatever It Takes is “one of the best books ever written about how poverty influences learning, and vice versa” (The Washington Post).
What would it take?… [more below]
- Author: Tough, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 10 2009
- ISBN10: 0547247966
- Language: English
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I See You: How Love Opens Our Eyes to Invisible People
$19.99 Add to cart- 2020 American Express NGen Leadership Award
We don’t care about what we don’t see. Countless people are invisible to us. We overlook the poor and homeless, partly because we don’t share much space wit
- Author: Lester, Terence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: August 13 2019
- ISBN10: 0830845720
- Language: English
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Class: A Guide Through the American Status System
$22.00 Add to cartThe bestselling, comprehensive, and carefully researched guide to the ins-and-outs of the American class system with a detailed look at the defining factors of each group, from customs to fashion to h
- Author: Fussell, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 01, 1992
- ISBN10: 0671792253
- Language: English
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Blighted: A Story of People, Politics, and an American Housing Miracle
$30.95 Add to cartBlighted is a powerful narrative about the decades-long decay and remarkable two-year reinvention of Summerdale, an aging apartment community located in one of Atlanta’s grittiest corridors. From burn
- Author: Stagmeier, Margaret
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1588384713
- Language: English
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The Power of Proximity: Moving Beyond Awareness to Action
$19.99 Add to cartWe can see evidence of injustice all around us, whether in continuing incidents of racial inequality or in the systemic forces that disenfranchise people and perpetuate poverty. It’s important to lear
- Author: Warren, Michelle Ferrigno
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: July 25 2017
- ISBN10: 0830843906
- Language: English
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More Than Money: How Economic Inequality Affects Everything
$19.95 Add to cartEconomic inequality affects everybody.
No matter how rich or poor you are, economic inequality impacts every aspect of your life–the place where you live, the opportunities you experience, the health
- Author: Dyer, Hadley
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1773217003
- Language: English
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Breakfast at Sally’s: One Homeless Man’s Inspirational Journey
$17.99 Add to cart“Reads like a novel. . . . But it has the ring of truth, and an uplifting message that endures.”–New York Times. Features a new foreword by the author and a heartfelt endorsement by Washington State’… [more below]
- Author: LeMieux, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 12 2015
- ISBN10: 1632203464
- Language: English
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Burning Midnight
$15.00 Add to cartFor fans of The Maze Runner and The Fifth Wave, this debut YA novel from Hugo Award winner Will McIntosh pits four underprivileged teens against an evil billionaire in the race of a lifetime.
No on- Author: McIntosh, Will
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 31 2017
- ISBN10: 0553534130
- Language: English
