Poverty & Homelessness
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Kit: Read All about It
$7.99 Add to cartKit Kittredge has a nose for news — but she never dreamed that the news stories about the hard times of the Depression would become her own story. First Mother’s bothersome friends move in with the K… [more below]
- Series: American Girl Historical Characters
- Author: Tripp, Valerie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: February 18 2020
- ISBN10: 1683371585
- Language: English
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Punching Bag
$17.95 Read morePunching Bag is the compelling true story of a high school career defined by poverty and punctuated by outbreaks of domestic abuse. Rex Ogle, who brilliantly mapped his experience of hunger in Free L
- Author: Ogle, Rex
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 05 2021
- ISBN10: 132401623X
- Language: English
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Shelter: Homelessness in Our Community
$24.95 Read more★ “An outstanding, sophisticated introduction to a complex topic, this book encourages readers to prioritize kindness towards and dignity for people experiencing homelessness. -Recommended as a
- Series: Orca Think
- Author: Peterson, Lois
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: October 12 2021
- ISBN10: 1459825535
- Language: English
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Nobody Owns the Moon
$17.99 Read more“Respectful of children’s intelligence, the book presents topics such as friendship, acceptance, belonging, and otherness that will challenge them to think further.”–KIrkus Reviews, starred review
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- Author: Riddle, Tohby
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: October 19 2021
- ISBN10: 099438419X
- Language: English
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Still a Family: A Story about Homelessness
$17.99 Read moreNew York Public Library Best Books for Kids 2017
A family has fallen on hard times and are living in different homeless shelters. But even though they are separate, they are still a family.A little gi
- Author: Reeves Sturgis, Brenda
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: January 31 2017
- ISBN10: 0807577073
- Language: English
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The King of Jam Sandwiches
$12.95 Read more★ “Tug at the heartstrings and tickle the funny bone…This warm tale is definitely one for the keeper shelves. Highly recommended.”–School Library Journal, starred review
Thirteen-year-old Rob
- Author: Walters, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 22 2020
- ISBN10: 145982556X
- Language: English
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Motherland: A Memoir
$28.99 Read moreFrom Venezuelan reporter Paula Ram comes a powerful memoir about one woman’s complicated relationship with her family as her beloved homeland collapses into ruin.
In the span of a generation, oil-ri
- Author: Ramón, Paula
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 251
- Publish Date: October 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1542036909
- Language: English
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Cardboard City
$12.95 Read moreCardboard City follows the lives of two young teens–members of a Romani family. Saida and Nikola experience harsh discrimination at school and crushing poverty in their informal settlement, spread ou
- Author: Jovanovic, Katarina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: June 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1990598102
- Language: English
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Silent Voices 2nd Edition: People with Mental Disorders on the Street
$22.95 Read moreWe avert our eyes when we meet them on the street: homeless mentally ill people with their hand-scrawled signs, shopping carts, and cardboard boxes. Because of our fear and revulsion or the guilty rel… [more below]
- Author: Okin, Robert L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 0996077715
- Language: English
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In Real Life
$20.99 Read moreA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
From acclaimed teen author Cory Doctorow and rising star cartoonist Jen Wang, In Real Life is a sensitive, thoughtful look at adolescence, gaming, poverty, and culture-clas- Author: Doctorow, Cory
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 14 2014
- ISBN10: 1596436581
- Language: English
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Scorpions: A Newbery Honor Award Winner
$11.99 Add to cartThe Scorpions are a gun-toting Harlem gang, and Jamal Hicks is about to become tragically involved with them in this authentic tale of the sacrifice of innocence and the struggle to steer clear of vio
- Author: Myers, Walter Dean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 28 2013
- ISBN10: 0064470660
- Language: English
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Reinventing Food Banks and Pantries: New Tools to End Hunger
$29.00 Read moreIn the US, there is a wide-ranging network of at least 370 food banks, and more than 60,000 hunger-relief organizations such as food pantries and meal programs. These groups provide billions of meals … [more below]
- Author: Martin, Katie S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: March 09 2021
- ISBN10: 1642831530
- Language: English
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High-Risers: Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing
$19.99 Read moreJoining the ranks of Evicted, The Warmth of Other Sons, and classic works of literary non-fiction by Alex Kotlowitz and J. Anthony Lukas, High-Risers braids personal narratives, city politics, and nat
- Author: Austen, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 12 2019
- ISBN10: 0062235079
- Language: English
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Not Pop-Pop
$12.99 Read more- Author: de Groot, Angela
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: August 27 2024
- ISBN10: 0593578929
- Language: English
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Crooked Smile: What It Took to Escape a Decade of Homelessness, Addiction, & Crime
$18.99 Add to cartFeatured In the Wall Street Journal
As Seen on Jesse Watters Crooked Smile details one man’s journey that left him homeless on Skid Row, and what it took to escape a decade of addiction. “Darkly humor- Author: Klickstein, Jared
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 25 2024
- ISBN10: 9798888452523
- Language: English
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Walking With God: A Homeless Experience
$15.99 Add to cartHAVE YOU EVER WONDERED WHAT IT IS LIKE TO BE HOMELESS? GOING WHERE GOD SENDS US IS NOT ALWAYS COMFORTABLE, BUT IT IS ALWAYS REWARDING.
Join my friend Shane and me as we embark on a one-week journey in
- Author: Hylton, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 154
- Publish Date: August 27 2024
- ISBN10: 9798893335552
- Language: English
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Rethinking Rescue: Dog Lady and the Story of America’s Forgotten People and Pets
$28.00 Add to cartRethinking Rescue boldly confronts two of the biggest challenges of our time–poverty and homelessness–in asking the question: Who deserves the love of a pet?
In Los Angeles’s most underserved commun- Author: Mithers, Carol
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 20 2024
- ISBN10: 1640095985
- Language: English
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Locked in
$9.99 Read moreLocked In Escape Rooms has a new owner. He’s offering prize money for whoever can successfully escape the room. Four very different teenagers answer the call. Tony is a star athlete and honor-roll stu… [more below]
- Author: Gomez, Halli
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1631638459
- Language: English
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The Forgotten Girls: A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America
$20.00 Read moreNEW 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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Crossing the Wire
$9.99 Read moreIn this riveting, action-packed novel from award-winning author Will Hobbs, a teenage boy hoping to help his loved ones must fight for his life as he makes the dangerous journey across the Mexican bor
- Author: Hobbs, Will
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 10 2007
- ISBN10: 0060741406
- Language: English
