Poverty & Homelessness
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Operation Final Notice
$9.99 Add to cartLearning to ask for help is hard, but living with no help is harder as these two friends find out in this middle grade novel that Publishers Weekly calls, “A feel-good story with Hallmark Christmas mo… [more below]
- Author: Landis, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 27 2024
- ISBN10: 0593109775
- Language: English
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Hillbilly, Una Eleg?a Rural: Memorias de Una Familia Y Una Cultura En Crisis (Edici?n de la Pel?cula) / Hillbilly Elegy (Movie Tie-In)
$18.95 Add to cartBESTSELLER #1 DEL NEW YORK TIMES
El libro en el que se basa la pel?cula de Netflix. Hillbilly, una eleg?a rural es un relato apasionado y apasionante de una clase social en decadencia: la clase trabaja
- Author: Vance, J. D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 17 2024
- ISBN10: 6073920857
- Language: Spanish
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The Playdate
$18.99 Add to cartFor one little girl, the prospect of a playdate at her friend Henry’s house fills her with excitement.
She really likes Henry. He even has a funny dog. And although she and her mother have to take a
- Author: Brandelius, Uje
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: April 08 2025
- ISBN10: 1836290144
- Language: English
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Somebody’s Someone
$18.99 Add to cartTwelve-year-old Ruby Bean has become an Accidental Expert on Missing Mothers.
When her mother, Ruthie, goes missing again due to mental illness and addiction, Ruby and her aunt leap into action to se
- Author: High, Linda Oatman
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1947159879
- Language: English
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102 Days of Lying about Lauren
$8.99 Add to cart- Author: Jortner, Maura
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 0823458741
- Language: English
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Maid for It
$8.99 Add to cartFrom the acclaimed author of Roll with It comes a relatable and “heart-wrenching” (Kirkus Reviews) middle grade novel about a girl who, in a desperate bid to keep her family afloat, takes over her mom… [more below]
- Author: Sumner, Jamie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 1665905786
- Language: English
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Queenie in Seven Moves
$18.99 Add to cartAmid the uncertainty of not having a permanent home, twelve-year-old Queenie finds unforeseen friendship–and unexpected confidence–in this warm, sensitive story addressing loss and belonging.
To Que- Author: Louise, Zanni
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 22 2025
- ISBN10: 1536235830
- Language: English
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Lost at Sea: Poverty and Paradise Collide at the Edge of America
$32.50 Add to cartA deeply personal nine-year account of the lives of the “anchor-outs”–an unhoused community living off the California coast on abandoned boats–that explores the struggles and resilience of those sur
- Author: Kloc, Joe
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 0063061694
- Language: English
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After the Shelter
$18.99 Add to cartAs a mother and daughter transition out of a shelter and into their own home, they experience the bittersweet joy of a new beginning.
Life wasn’t easy at the shelter, but at least Lily knew what to e- Author: Reeves Sturgis, Brenda
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: April 10 2025
- ISBN10: 0807504300
- Language: English
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Ready to Smile Again
$18.99 Add to cartWhen the trauma of being uprooted from home causes a grieving chipmunk to stash his remaining possessions inside his cheeks, he soon realizes that holding on to too much for too long might result in l
- Author: Reinert, Katie Lee
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: March 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1957655380
- Language: English
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You Only Get What You’re Organized to Take: Lessons from the Movement to End Poverty
$27.95 Add to cartOne of the nation’s leading anti-poverty organizers and moral voices shares the largely untold story of the movement to end poverty, open to all, and led by the poor themselves
As one of the nation’s- Author: Theoharis, Liz
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 08 2025
- ISBN10: 0807008648
- Language: English
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The Pecan Sheller
$19.99 Read moreIn 1930s San Antonio, thirteen-year-old Petra dreams of going to college and becoming a writer.
But with her beloved father dead, two younger siblings to care for, and with a stepmother struggling to
- Author: Ruiz-Flores, Lupe
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 9798765610527
- Language: English
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Way Home: Journeys Through Homelessness
$29.95 Add to cartCan one city’s solutions to homelessness help the United States face the issue nationally?
The United States grapples with a solution for the unhoused by employing a patchwork of uneven rhetoric and po
- Author: Ensign, Josephine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1421450232
- Language: English
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Old Blue Is My Home: A Picture Book
$18.99 Add to cartThis poignant yet reassuring picture book follows a family and the van that provides them with safety, warmth, and togetherness amidst economic and housing insecurity
An old blue van may not look lik- Author: Judge, Lita
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: April 08 2025
- ISBN10: 1419771523
- Language: English
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The Wrong Way Home: (Newbery Honor Award Winner)
$8.99 Read moreTwelve-year-old Fern believes she’s living a noble life–but what if everything she’s been told is a lie? This is a huge-hearted story about a girl learning to question everything–and to trust in her… [more below]
- Author: O’Shaughnessy, Kate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 059365076X
- Language: English
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Lupita Manana
$9.99 Read moreCrossing over the border is a dangerous business…
…But Lupita must cross from Mexico to America. After her father dies in a fishing boat accident in the seas near their small Mexican village, Lupit… [more below]
- Series: Harper Trophy Books (Paperback)
- Author: Beatty, Patricia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 17 2000
- ISBN10: 0380732475
- Language: English
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Finding Harmony
$14.95 Add to cartSo what if Harmony has to be the grown-up?
After months living in a foster home (again), Harmony convinces a judge that she can move back in with her mother. Her mom even finds an apartment that the s
- Author: Walters, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: February 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1459836421
- Language: English
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The Three Melissas: The Practical Guide to Surviving Family Homelessness
$15.00 Add to cartThe Three Melissas: The Practical Guide to Surviving Family Homelessness by Diane Nilan and Diana Bowman, two long-time advocates for families experiencing homelessness, is a one-of-a-kind practical g
- Author: Nilan, Diane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 194
- Publish Date: September 01 2024
- ISBN10: 9798988181682
- Language: English
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Free Lunch
$18.99 Add to cartInstead of giving him lunch money, Rex’s mom has signed him up for free meals. As a poor kid in a wealthy school district, better-off kids crowd impatiently behind him as he tries to explain to the ca… [more below]
- Author: Ogle, Rex
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 10 2019
- ISBN10: 132400360X
- Language: English
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Welcome Homeless: One Man’s Journey of Discovering the Meaning of Home
$18.99 Add to cartHomeless.
No other word better describes our modern-day suffering. It reveals one of our deepest and most painful conditions–not having a sense of belonging. However, Alan Graham, founder of Mobile Lo
- Author: Graham, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 07 2017
- ISBN10: 0718086554
- Language: English
