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2) 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.
4) Poverty
Author
Series
Publisher
World Almanac Library
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Discusses the causes of poverty and the need to make changes in educational systems, global trade, international debt, and aid programs.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Language
English
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Twelve-year--old Lowen Grover, a budding comic-book artist, is still reeling from the shooting death of his friend Abe when he stumbles across an article about a former mill town giving away homes for just one dollar. It not only seems like the perfect escape from Flintlock and all of the awful memories associated with the city, but an opportunity for his mum to run her very own business. Fortunately, his family is willing to give it a try. But is...
6) Very rich
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Language
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.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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It's 1967, and eleven-year-old Ellis Earl Brown has big dreams. He's going to grow up to be a teacher or a lawyer--or maybe both--and live in a big brick house in town. There'll always be enough food in the icebox, and his mama won't have to run herself ragged looking for work as a maid in order to support Ellis Earl and his eight siblings and niece, Vera. So Ellis Earl applies himself at school, soaking up the lessons that Mr. Foster teaches his...
10) 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.
11) The in-between
Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In the early 2000s, thirteen-year-old Katie Van Heidrich has moved more times that she can count, for as long as she can remember. There were the slow moves where you see the whole thing coming. There were the fast ones where you grab what you can in seconds. When Katie and her family come back from an out-of-town funeral, they discover their landlord has unceremoniously evicted them, forcing them to pack lightly and move quickly. They make their...
12) The great Jeff
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
Thirteen-year-old Jeff's life spirals downward into homelessness after his alcoholic mother loses her job.--
13) Star of light
Author
Publisher
Moody Press
Pub. Date
[2002?]
Language
English
Description
In a mountain village in Morocco, an Englishwoman transforms the lives of her visiting niece, a blind baby girl, and an eleven-year-old boy through her work as a missionary nurse.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
After her father's landscaping business fails and the family loses their house, sixth-grader Griselda Zaragoza follows her sister's example and begins selling Alma cosmetics while hiding her changed circumstances from friends.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Eleven-year-old Fern helps to take care of her impoverished family by foraging for food in the forest, but when a fracking company rolls into town, she realizes that her peaceful woods and her family's livelihood could be threatened"--
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Description
When his father is arrested as a debtor in 1849 London, fourteen-year-old John Huffman must take on unexpected responsibilities, from asking a distant relative for help to determining why people are spying on him and his family.
20) 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."
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