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English
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At the end of the Second World War, Cyril Conroy combines luck and a single canny investment to begin an enormous real estate empire, propelling his family from poverty to enormous wealth. His first order of business is to buy the Dutch House, a lavish estate in the suburbs outside of Philadelphia. Meant as a surprise for his wife, the house sets in motion the undoing of everyone he loves. Cyril's son Danny and his older sister Maeve are exiled from...
4) Golden arm
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English
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Lazarus Weathers, a high school senior from the wrong side of the tracks, seeks to protect his half-brother while pitching his way out of poverty, one strike at a time.
5) Runner
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English
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Living with his alcoholic father on a broken-down sailboat on Puget Sound has been hard on seventeen-year-old Chance Taylor, but when his love of running leads to a high-paying job, he quickly learns that the money is not worth the risk.
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English
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"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Before We Were Yours comes a new novel inspired by little-known historical events: a dramatic story of three young women on a journey in search of family amidst the destruction of the post-Civil War South, and of a modern-day teacher who rediscovers their story and its vital connection to her own students' lives. In her distinctive voice, Lisa Wingate brings to life startling stories from actual "Lost...
7) Very rich
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English
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Ten-year-old Rupert, from a very large, very poor family, accidentally becomes part of an eccentric rich family's life beginning at Christmas, and soon sees that wealth is not everything.
11) Those shoes
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English
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Jeremy, who longs to have the black high tops that everyone at school seems to have but his grandmother cannot afford, is excited when he sees them for sale in a thrift shop and decides to buy them even though they are the wrong size.
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English
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From age six through her high school valedictory speech, believing she and her mother are wizards helps young Echo cope with poverty, hunger, her mother's drug abuse, and much more.
Echo Brown is a wizard from the East Side of Cleveland, where apartments are small and parents suffer addiction to the white rocks. Yet there is magic everywhere. Every day Echo travels between worlds, attending a rich white school on the West Side. But there are dangers...
13) Omar rising
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Omar must contend with being treated like a second-class citizen when he gets a scholarship to an elite boarding school.
14) The great Jeff
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Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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Thirteen-year-old Jeff's life spirals downward into homelessness after his alcoholic mother loses her job.--
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English
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Bo Mason and his wife and two boys live a transient life of poverty and despair; drifting from town to town, the violent, ruthless Bo seeks his fortune. Stegner has created a masterful, harrowing saga of a family trying to survive during the lean years of the early 20th century.
16) Marie, dancing
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
English
Description
A fictionalized autobiography of Marie van Goethem, the impoverished student from the Paris Opéra ballet school who became the model for Degas' famous sculpture, "The little dancer."
17) Keep holding on
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Bullied at school and neglected by her poor, self-absorbed, single mother at home, high school junior Noelle finally reaches the breaking point after a classmate commits suicide.
18) Sounder
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Language
English
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Sounder, the coon dog, cannot save his master a poor black sharecropper driven to steal for his hungry wife and children.
19) Sauce azul
Author
Series
Roble centenario volume 17
Publisher
Rialp
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
20) Gather
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Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Ian Gray isn't supposed to have a dog, but a lot of things that shouldn't happen end up happening anyway. And Gather, Ian's adopted pup, is good company now that Ian has to quit the basketball team, find a job, and take care of his mom as she tries to overcome her opioid addiction. Despite the obstacles thrown their way, Ian is determined to keep his family afloat no matter what it takes. And for a little while, things are looking up: Ian makes friends,...
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