Poverty & Homelessness
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The Circuit Graphic Novel
$24.99 Add to cart“Poignantly told from a young boy’s perspective, the popular and award-winning memoir centered on a Mexican family working California’s fields is now a powerful graphic novel that will appeal to reade… [more below]
- Series: Circuit
- Author: Jiménez, Francisco
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 26 2024
- ISBN10: 0358348218
- Language: English
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Just One Pebble. One Boy’s Quest to End Hunger
$18.95 Read more“Anyone can change the world as long as you dream big.” The true story of a boy who ignites awareness and provides aid for hunger relief in his community. For children ages 5 years and up.
One day, on
- Author: Wilson Sirkovsky, Dianna
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1605377678
- Language: English
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I Have the Right to Be a Child
$19.99 Add to cartSelected for the IRA Notable Books for a Global Society List, selected for the Children’s Literary Assembly 2013 Notable Children’s Books and the USBBY Outstanding International Book List
With a very
- Series: I Have the Right #1
- Author: Serres, Alain
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: June 01 2012
- ISBN10: 1554981492
- Language: English
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Finding Normal
$17.99 Read morePerfect for fans of Jamie Sumner and Barbara Dee, this heartfelt middle grade novel about friendship, belonging, and the power of community follows a girl whose family is uprooted after a flood destro… [more below]
- Author: Faris, Stephanie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 20 2024
- ISBN10: 1665938900
- Language: English
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Trash
$11.99 Add to cartIn an unnamed Third World country, in the not-so-distant future, three “dumpsite boys” make a living picking through the mountains of garbage on the outskirts of a large city.
One unlucky-lucky day, R- Author: Mulligan, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 11 2011
- ISBN10: 0385752164
- Language: English
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Pretreatment Across Multiple Fields of Practice: Trauma Informed Approach to Homelessness and Beyond
$25.95 Add to cartPretreatment Across Multiple Fields of Practice: Trauma Informed Approach to Homelessness and Beyond
Jay and Louise Levy and their co-authors have distilled years of diverse experience serving people w
- Author: Levy, Jay S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1615998578
- Language: English
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Junkyard Dogs
$11.99 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1682636445
- Language: English
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Seeking Shelter: A Working Mother, Her Children, and a Story of Homelessness in America
$29.99 Add to cartFrom the bestselling author of The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace, a powerful portrayal of American homelessness that follows a single mother of six in Los Angeles courageously struggling to ke… [more below]
- Author: Hobbs, Jeff
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1668034824
- Language: English
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They Just Need to Get a Job: 15 Myths on Homelessness
$18.95 Add to cartFor readers of Andrea Elliott and Matthew Desmond, the former CEO of the Coalition for the Homeless breaks through the highly destructive misinformation surrounding our homeless neighbors
Conservative- Series: Myths Made in America
- Author: Brosnahan, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 0807006971
- Language: English
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The Forgotten Girls: A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America
$20.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – An acclaimed journalist tries to understand how she escaped her small town in Arkansas while her brilliant friend could not, and, in the process, illuminates the unemployme… [more below]
- Author: Potts, Monica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 30 2024
- ISBN10: 0525435360
- Language: English
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Sons, Daughters, and Sidewalk Psychotics: Mental Illness and Homelessness in Los Angeles
$30.00 Add to cartSociologist Neil Gong explains why mental health treatment in Los Angeles rarely succeeds, for the rich, the poor, and everyone in between.
In 2022, Los Angeles became the US county with the largest- Author: Gong, Neil
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: March 29 2024
- ISBN10: 022658190X
- Language: English
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Humble Pie
$20.00 Add to cart- Author: LaMarche, Pat
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 206
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 9798988181620
- Language: English
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I Know How to Draw an Owl
$18.99 Add to cartBelle draws the best owl in class, but she doesn’t say why: she sees them in the park, where she and her mother sleep.
Belle and her mother used to have a house, a table, and chairs, a home like any o- Author: Hippely, Hilary Horder
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 0823456668
- Language: English
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The Lost and the Found: A True Story of Homelessness, Found Family, and Second Chances
$28.99 Add to cartIn the tradition of Stephanie Land and Matthew Desmond, a powerful and deeply reported narrative of homelessness, despair, and hope.
Kevin Fagan’s The Lost and the Found, set in San Francisco–one of- Author: Fagan, Kevin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1668017113
- Language: English
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The Art of Us
$19.99 Add to cartFalling in love is complicated when you’re both keeping secrets.
On the surface, everything seems perfect for high school senior Ireland Raine. She’s intelligent and artistically talented, and her na- Author: Wright, Julie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1639933255
- Language: English
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Rich: A Dyamonde Daniel Book
$7.99 Add to cartThe second book in the Dyamonde Daniels series, by bestselling author Nikki Grimes, is great for fans of the Keena Ford, Judy Moody, and Magnificent Mya Tibbs series and includes illustrations by Core… [more below]
- Series: Dyamonde Daniel Book #2
- Author: Grimes, Nikki
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: April 04 2017
- ISBN10: 0425288544
- Language: English
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Can’t Get There from Here
$12.99 Read more“A powerful and disturbing look at the downward spiral of despair that remains too common for too many teens (School Library Journal).”
Her street name is Maybe. She lives with a tribe of homeless tee- Author: Strasser, Todd
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 06 2012
- ISBN10: 1442433574
- Language: English
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The Power Elite
$23.99 Add to cartFirst published in 1956, The Power Elite stands as a contemporary classic of social science and social criticism. C. Wright Mills examines and critiques the organization of power in the United States,… [more below]
- Author: Mills, C. Wright
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 17 2000
- ISBN10: 0195133544
- Language: English
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Someplace to Call Home
$15.95 Read more2021-2021 Texas Bluebonnet Master List. 2020 Women Writing the West Willa Award (tied for 1st place). In 1933, what’s left of the Turner family–twelve-year-old Hallie and her two brothers–finds itse… [more below]
- Author: Dallas, Sandra
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1585364142
- Language: English
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The Queen on Our Corner
$17.99 Read moreA thought-provoking story that encourages us all to sit up and take notice.
Nobody notices the queen on the corner. Nobody, that is . . . except one young girl. Through her eyes, the woman who dwells
- Author: Christopher, Lucy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: October 05 2021
- ISBN10: 1911373889
- Language: English
