Poverty & Homelessness
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A Place Called Home: A Memoir
$19.99 Add to cartThis memoir that “will take your breath away” chronicles a harrowing journey through homelessness and poverty in New York City, followed by a turbulent experience in foster care (Jeanette Walls, New Y… [more below]
- Author: Ambroz, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 0306923033
- Language: English
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Home for Margaret
$19.99 Add to cartOne day, when Emma and her mom are hiking through Cherry Hill Forest, they spot a blue tent in the snow — and inside lives a woman named Margaret!
Emma wonders why she’s there, until Mom, who is a s
- Author: Davy, Denise
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: October 08 2025
- ISBN10: 1773067761
- Language: English
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Bittersweet Lane: Creating Home(s) in the American Affordable Housing Crisis
$27.99 Add to cartThe Bitter Reality. The Sweet Solutions. The Lane Forward.
Housing dominates headlines, yet few truly understand how affordable housing works–or why it’s failing. Bittersweet Lane is the first book t- Author: Madden, Jamie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 9798991642897
- Language: English
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Community Snowman
$19.99 Add to cartBuilding a snowman becomes a community effort, in this wordless story about a cold winter day that snowballs into a warm neighborhood gathering.
One morning, a girl wakes up to discover that it has sn
- Author: Kerbel, Deborah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: October 08 2025
- ISBN10: 1773069519
- Language: English
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White Poverty: How Exposing Myths about Race and Class Can Reconstruct American Democracy
$18.99 Add to cartOne of the most pernicious and persistent myths in the United States is the association of Black skin with poverty. Though there are forty million more poor white people than Black people, most Americ
- Author: Barber, William J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 1324096756
- Language: English
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Child X: A Memoir of Slavery, Poverty, Celebrity, and Scientology
$28.95 Add to cart“A vivid, compelling and heartrending memoir.”
“Evocative . . . Intimate yet universally resonant . . . a powerful memoir that takes us down the darkest corridors of Scientology.”
—Booklist
—Kirkus- Author: Mustard, Jamie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: July 29 2025
- ISBN10: 163774708X
- Language: English
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Classic Starts(r) a Little Princess
$9.99 Add to cartPoor Sara Crewe. Once upon a time her beloved father pampered and adored her. But ever since he died, leaving her alone and penniless, she’s been caught in the cruel clutches of Miss Minchin, the head… [more below]
- Series: Classic Starts(r)
- Author: Burnett, Frances Hodgson
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 17 2025
- ISBN10: 1454942274
- Language: English
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Workin’ Our Way Home: The Incredible True Story of a Homeless Ex-Con and a Grieving Millionaire Thrown Together to Save Each Other
$19.99 Add to cartWinner of the 2024 American Legacy Book Award in Autobiography/Memoir
The heartwarming sequel to Same Kind of Different As Me! After Miss Debbie’s death in 2000, her husband, Ron formed an even stronge
- Author: Hall, Ron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 20 2018
- ISBN10: 0785219838
- Language: English
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London Labour and the London Poor
$19.00 Read moreUnflinching reports of London’s poor from a prolific and influential English writer
London Labour and the London Poor originated in a series of articles, later published in four volumes, written for th
- Author: Mayhew, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: April 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0140432418
- Language: English
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Encampment: Resistance, Grace, and an Unhoused Community
$18.95 Read more“Striking, elegant.” – Publishers Weekly, ★ STARRED Review”
An activist priest provides sanctuary for an encampment of unhoused people in her churchyard
The housing crisis plaguing major urban cen
- Author: Helwig, Maggie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 1552455041
- Language: English
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Where Are You Going, Butterfly?
$18.95 Add to cartAs she collects coins from passers-by, the homeless girl’s world is transformed when she spots a breathtaking orange and black butterfly fluttering by. Driven by the mesmerizing sight, she sets off on… [more below]
- Author: Liguore, Hunter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1478887788
- Language: English
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Welcome to Nowhere
$8.99 Read more“A compassionate, heart-wrenching work that helps readers understand the profound losses people suffer during wartime. ” Kirkus Reviews
From award-winning and beloved children’s author Elizabeth Laird- Author: Laird, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 27 2024
- ISBN10: 1035034735
- Language: English
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Homeless by Choice: A Memoir of Love, Hate, and Forgiveness
$22.99 Add to cartAt the age of 14 years old, Roy found himself homeless due to domestic violence. He moved from house to house to survive. With only a duffle bag to call home, he was at the mercy of the streets. After
- Author: Juarez, Roy, Jr.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 230
- Publish Date: August 30 2018
- ISBN10: 1732550786
- Language: English
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Tilted Sky
$18.99 Read moreIs it too much to ask for an ordinary, boring life?
Bai Jian is a typical Chinese boy growing up in a big city. But his life is far from typical: his mother abandoned him when he was a baby, and his- Author: Emei, Yao
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 1646143833
- Language: English
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Picture a Girl
$14.95 Read moreAddie’s mom is good at two things (three, if you count making French toast): surfing and telling stories.
Addie and her brother, Billy, live with their mom in a shabby rental cabin in the tourist town
- Author: Manzer, Jenny
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 1459836669
- Language: English
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The Scooter Twins
$19.99 Add to cartMelanie and Melvin may be twins, but they couldn’t be more different.
Melanie is LOUD and Melvin is quiet. Melvin likes frogs and Melanie loves MOTORCYCLES! When the twins learn that they will get th
- Author: Palmer, Dorothy Ellen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1773066293
- Language: English
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Worth It
$18.99 Add to cartSeventeen-year-old Angela Carter intended to pick out prom dresses with her best friend and fill out college applications during her senior year. But after her father abandons the family and her addic
- Author: Nielsen, Amy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 21 2024
- ISBN10: 1958531588
- Language: English
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My Friend Andy
$18.99 Add to cartThe big city is a scary place for Fluffy, the little lost dog–until she makes a friend who will help her in this carefully observed story that challenges readers to re-evaluate perceptions of homeles… [more below]
- Author: Chinnery, Emma
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: March 26 2024
- ISBN10: 1454955252
- Language: English
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Girls Like Her
$19.99 Read moreWinner of the Golden Kite Award
A raw, gripping, authentic, and boldly original novel about a fifteen-year-old Texas girl set to stand trial for murder–and the one person who might be able to help her
- Author: Sumrow, Melanie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 25 2024
- ISBN10: 0063343282
- Language: English
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Poverty for Profit: How Corporations Get Rich Off America’s Poor
$28.99 Read moreA Ms. Magazine Most Anticipated Book
A devastating investigation into the “corporate poverty complex”-the myriad businesses that profit from the poorPoverty is big business in America. The federal g
- Author: Kim, Anne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 28 2024
- ISBN10: 1620977818
- Language: English
