Poverty & Homelessness
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Who Killed My Father
$12.95 Add to cartWho Killed My Father rips into France’s long neglect of the working class and its overt contempt for the poor, accusing the complacent French politicians– at the minimum–of negligent homicide. The a… [more below]
- Author: Louis, Edouard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 0811235041
- Language: English
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Dear Librarian
$19.99 Add to cartWhen Lydia was five years old, she and her family had to leave their home. They hopped from Grandma’s house to Aunt Linda’s house to Cousin Alice’s house, but no place was permanent. Then one day, eve
- Author: Sigwarth, Lydia M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: June 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0374313903
- Language: English
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A Single Shard
$18.99 Add to cartThe 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
- Author: Park, Linda Sue
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: April 23 2001
- ISBN10: 0395978270
- Language: English
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The Benefits of Being an Octopus
$19.99 Read moreEdutopia’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
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Tune It Out
$8.99 Add to cartFrom 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- Author: Sumner, Jamie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 31 2021
- ISBN10: 1534457011
- Language: English
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10th Anniversary Edition The Life You Can Save: How To Do Your Part To End World Poverty
$19.95 Add to cartIn this Tenth Anniversary Edition of The Life You Can Save, Peter Singer brings his landmark book up to date. In addition to restating his compelling arguments about how we should respond to extreme p
- Author: Singer, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: December 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1733672702
- Language: English
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The Library Bus
$18.95 Add to cartAuthor 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
- Author: Rahman, Bahram
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: November 24 2020
- ISBN10: 1772781010
- Language: English
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Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
$30.00 Add to cartTHE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER IS NOW A MAJOR-MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY RON HOWARD AND STARRING AMY ADAMS, GLENN CLOSE, AND GABRIEL BASSO
“You will not read a more important book about America this
- Author: Vance, J. D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 28 2016
- ISBN10: 0062300547
- Language: English
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Sun Don’t Shine
$18.95 Read moreSixteen-year-old Reece is an expert at keeping secrets. She has to be, since her father abducted her ten years ago. For as long as she can remember, she’s been on the run, sneaking food out of the dum… [more below]
- Author: Chappell, Crissa-Jean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 172
- Publish Date: January 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1646034309
- Language: English
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Diamond Boy
$19.99 Add to cartMy father says that a journey should always change your life in some way. Well, when you have nothing, I suppose a journey promises everything.
“Diamonds for everyone.” That’s what fifteen-year-old P- Author: Williams, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 05 2016
- ISBN10: 0316320684
- Language: English
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Paper Things
$9.99 Add to cart“Will engender empathy and understanding of a serious and all-too-real problem. Jacobson’s story is poignant but never preachy.” — School Library Journal (starred review)
When forced to choose betwee- Author: Jacobson, Jennifer Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 14, 2017
- ISBN10: 076369441X
- Language: English
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Home for Grace
$18.99 Read moreWhen 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
- Author: White, Kathryn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 9798765608326
- Language: English
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Junkyard Dogs
$18.99 Read moreA suspenseful and gut-wrenching story of an unhoused teenager struggling to survive a criminal scrapping ring while unraveling a dark family history
Josh’s father has gone missing without a trace, and- Author: Higgs-Coulthard, Katherine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1682635406
- Language: English
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Armando and the Blue Tarp School
$11.95 Add to cartThe story of a young Mexican boy living in a colonia (trash dump community) who takes the first steps toward realizing his dream of getting an education.
Armando’s family is pepenadores, trash pickers,
- Author: Fine, Edith Hope
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: March 15 2014
- ISBN10: 1620141655
- Language: English
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The Fight to Save the Town: Reimagining Discarded America
$18.99 Add to cart- Author: Wilde Anderson, Michelle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 20 2023
- ISBN10: 1501195999
- Language: English
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The Patron Thief of Bread
$11.99 Add to cartA beautifully crafted middle-grade novel spiced with magic–and gargoyles!–from the acclaimed author of Hour of the Bees and Race to the Bottom of the Sea.
Fished from the river as an infant and rais- Author: Eagar, Lindsay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1536229601
- Language: English
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Simon B. Rhymin’
$16.99 Read moreA funny and heartwarming bounce-to-the-beat underdog story about a kid rapper whose rhymes bring his community together, by America’s favorite rapping teacher from Chicago.
As featured on Good Mornin- Series: Simon B. Rhymin’ #1
- Author: Reed, Dwayne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 02, 2021
- ISBN10: 0316538973
- Language: English
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A Wish in the Dark
$17.99 Add to cartA 2021 Newbery Honor Book
A boy on the run. A girl determined to find him. A compelling fantasy looks at issues of privilege, protest, and justice. All light in Chattana is created by one man — the G- Author: Soontornvat, Christina
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 24 2020
- ISBN10: 1536204943
- Language: English
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Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families
$22.99 Add to cartPulitzer Prize-winning author James Agee and renowned photgrapher Walker Evans’s Let Us Now Praise Famous Men is a landmark work of American photojournalism “renowned for its fusion of social conscien… [more below]
- Author: Evans, Walker
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: August 14 2001
- ISBN10: 0618127496
- Language: English
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Building an Orchestra of Hope: How Favio Chavez Taught Children to Make Music from Trash
$18.99 Read moreAn exuberantly illustrated true story about innovation, community, and the power of music.
In Cateura, Paraguay, a town built on a landfill, music teacher Favio Chavez longed to help the families liv- Series: Stories from Latin America
- Author: Oliver, Carmen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 44
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 0802854672
- Language: English
