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Publisher
Living on One
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
This award-winning documentary is a tool to help empower the extreme poor to take the first steps out of poverty. The film follows the story of four young friends who set out to live on just one dollar a day for eight weeks in rural Guatemala. They battle hunger, parasites and the realization that there are no easy answers. Yet, the generosity and strength of Rosa, a 20 year old woman, and Chino, a 12 year old boy gives them resilient hope that there...
42) Very rich
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
43) Nil by mouth
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
A gritty look at the mean streets of South London, where drug addiction, poverty and abuse are common, and hope is not.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The United States, the richest country on earth, has more poverty than any other advanced democracy. Why? Why does this land of plenty allow one in every eight of its children to go without basic necessities, permit scores of its citizens to live and die on the streets, and authorize its corporations to pay poverty wages? In this landmark book, an acclaimed sociologist draws on history, research, and original reporting to show how affluent Americans...
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons, Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Linda Tirado, in her signature brutally honest yet personable voice, articulates not only what it is to be working poor in America (yes, you can be poor and live in a house and have a job, even two), but what poverty is truly like-on all levels. In her thought-provoking voice, Tirado discusses how she went from lower-middle class, to sometimes middle class, to poor and everything in between, and in doing so reveals why "poor people don't always behave...
50) The orange shoes
Author
Publisher
Sleeping Bear
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Description
Delly Porter enjoys the feel of soft dirt beneath her feet as she walks to and from school, but after a classmate makes her feel ashamed of having no shoes she learns that her parents and others, too, see value in things that do not cost money.
51) Courage
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In Toronto, Izabel, Bebeth, Natasha, Benoît, Grace and Jean, members of Ontario’s “working poor” directly affected by the economic crisis, agree to take part in group sessions organized by filmmaker Geoff Bowie. They talk about having to work multiple jobs to get by, describe the stress generated by financial vulnerability, and courageously explain their strategies for getting out of their difficult situation. Touching, insightful and full...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In a society where materialism reigns, what is the real secret to happiness? Award-winning filmmaker Daniel Karslake (For the Bible Tells Me So) tells the unforgettable stories of five regular folks – a boy, a college student, a thirty-something and two seniors – whose lives went from ordinary to extraordinary based on one simple decision: to engage. Each chose action over apathy, and in the process, each one has had a significant and lasting...
54) Sauce azul
Author
Series
Roble centenario volume 17
Publisher
Rialp
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
The American University in Cairo Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Jaafar Ibrahim Sayyed al-Rawi is guided by his motto, "let life be filled with holy madness to the last breath." He narrates his life story to a friend during one long night in a café in old Cairo. Through a series of bad decisions, he has lost everything: his family, his position in society, and his fortune. A man driven by his passions, he married a beautiful Bedouin nomad for love, and as a consequence pays a punishingly high price. From a life...
57) Code red
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Language
English
Formats
Description
Thirteen-year-old former elite gymnast Eden is feeling lost after a career-ending injury, but when she meets new friends who open her eyes to period poverty, the struggle that low-income people have trying to afford menstrual products, she becomes an advocate for fair treatment and rediscovers her passion and drive.
Author
Publisher
Lee & Low
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
Español
Description
Armando and his father are trash-pickers in Tijuana, Mexico, but when Señor David brings his "school," a blue tarp set down near the garbage dump, to their neighborhood, Armando's father decides he must attend classes and learn. Based on a true story.
60) Runner
Author
Language
English
Description
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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