Poverty & Homelessness
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The Dream Catcher
$18.99 Add to cartPURA BELPR? AWARD WINNER FOR ILLUSTRATION
For fans of Last Stop on Market Street, an uplifting story about a boy who stays true to his biggest dream while finding the magic in every moment. Some peop- Author: Verdad, Marcelo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 0316330663
- Language: English
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Trespass: Portraits of Unhoused Life, Love, and Understanding
$29.99 Add to cartAs seen through the eyes of photographer Kim Watson, who has spent three years on the streets of Los Angeles documenting his intimate and deeply felt relationships with the unhoused, Trespass offers a
- Author: Watson, Kim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 218
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 1506491138
- Language: English
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Flying Through Water
$16.99 Add to cartAn NPR Best Book of the Year
“A must-read!”–Alan Gratz, New York Times bestselling author of Refugee For fans of A Long Walk to Water and Hatchet, this boy’s gripping journey from poverty to empower- Author: Wolo, Mamle
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 0316703966
- Language: English
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Red Bird Danced
$18.99 Add to cartWith lyrical verse and powerful emotion, Dawn Quigley (Ojibwe) tells the story of urban Native kids who find strength in connection with those who came before and in the hope that lets them take fligh
- Author: Quigley, Dawn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 0063223627
- Language: English
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White Poverty: How Exposing Myths about Race and Class Can Reconstruct American Democracy
$22.99 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 1324094877
- Language: English
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Road Home
$18.99 Add to cartWhen Rex was outed the summer after he graduated high school, his father gave him a choice: he could stay at home, find a girlfriend, and attend church twice a week, or he could be gay–and leave. Rex
- Author: Ogle, Rex
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 1324019921
- Language: English
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The Bicycle: How an Act of Kindness Changed a Young Refugee’s Life
$19.99 Add to cartThe true story of how a simple act of kindness changed a young refugee’s life–from award-winning author Patricia McCormick with Mevan Babakar.
For generations, Mevan and her family lived in their bel
- Author: McCormick, Patricia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 0063056992
- Language: English
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High Desert, Higher Costs: Bend and the Housing Crisis in the American West
$24.95 Add to cartNestled against the Cascade Mountains, former lumber town Bend, Oregon, entices residents who long to live in a wonderland of sagebrush and forests. But like so many other communities across the West
- Author: Bach, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: April 29 2025
- ISBN10: 1962645282
- Language: English
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The Anxious Exile of Sara Salt
$14.95 Add to cart★ “A meaningful, heartwarming read…perfect for an early middle grade reading level and great for the classroom. Prendergast explores powerful themes in a way that is hopeful and shows kids the
- Author: Prendergast, Gabrielle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1459838890
- Language: English
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There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America
$30.00 Add to cartThrough the unforgettable stories of five Atlanta families, this landmark work of journalism exposes a new and troubling trend–the dramatic rise of the “working homeless” in cities across America
The- Author: Goldstone, Brian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 0593237145
- Language: English
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Abolish Rent: How Tenants Can End the Housing Crisis
$17.95 Add to cartAbolish Rent takes aim at one of the foremost engines of inequality and injustice.
Rent drives millions into debt, despair, and onto the streets. The social cost of rent is too damn high. Written for a- Author: Rosenthal, Tracy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 9.79889E+12
- Language: English
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Former People
$36.00 Add to cartThe riveting and harrowing story of the Russian nobility caught in the upheaval of the Revolution
Winner of the Pushkin House Russian Book Prize
Named a Best Book of the Year by The Kansas City Star an- Author: Smith, Douglas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: September 24 2013
- ISBN10: 1250037794
- Language: English
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A Bike Like Sergio’s
$18.99 Add to cartFinders keepers, right? When Ruben picks up someone’s lost money, he finds out how hard it can be to do the right thing.
Ruben feels like he is the only kid without a bike. His friend Sergio reminds h- Author: Boelts, Maribeth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: October 04 2016
- ISBN10: 0763666491
- Language: English
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A Place for Us
$18.99 Add to cartA poignant wordless picture book about a homeless boy and his mom, by Children’s Literature Legacy Award winner James Ransome
When a little boy’s mom picks him up from school, his day seems a lot like- Author: Ransome, James E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 0593324889
- Language: English
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Finding Home
$7.99 Add to cart“I grab my clean clothes from the back seat and walk across the parking lot to the men’s restroom. It’s filthy, and the floor is wet. But I’m used to it now because we’ve been living here for almost t
- Author: Thompson, Russ
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 118
- Publish Date: June 09 2024
- ISBN10: 9798989065769
- Language: English
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Torn
$7.99 Add to cartPerry Fletcher is a straight-A student in high school with a chance for a track scholarship. But he wrecks his knee chasing a thief who steals a package off his porch. What does Perry learn about life
- Series: Finding Forward
- Author: Thompson, Russ
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 110
- Publish Date: July 31 2022
- ISBN10: 1737315750
- Language: English
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And Housing for All: The Fight to End Homelessness in America
$29.95 Add to cartA groundbreaking legal advocate argues that only by recognizing housing as a fundamental human right can we hope to solve America’s homelessness crisis.
In And Housing for All, founder of the Nationa- Author: Foscarinis, Maria
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 1633889769
- Language: English
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A Paradise of Small Houses: The Evolution, Devolution, and Potential Rebirth of Urban Housing
$18.95 Add to cart- Author: Podemski, Max
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 0807016152
- Language: English
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The Cost of Being Undocumented: One Woman’s Reckoning with America’s Inhumane Math
$28.95 Add to cartAn undocumented activist and a social scientist come together to tally of the structural costs of undocumented life
An inhumane math pervades this country: even as our government extracts labor and of- Author: Dick, Alix
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: June 17 2025
- ISBN10: 080701494X
- Language: English
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Homeless by Choice: A Memoir of Love, Hate, and Forgiveness
$19.99 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 230
- Publish Date: August 30 2018
- ISBN10: 1732550700
- Language: English
