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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...
3) Runner
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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.
4) Golden arm
Author
Language
English
Description
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) Very rich
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Language
English
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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.
9) Omar rising
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
Omar must contend with being treated like a second-class citizen when he gets a scholarship to an elite boarding school.
11) Those shoes
Author
Language
English
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Description
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.
12) Sauce azul
Author
Series
Roble centenario volume 17
Publisher
Rialp
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
13) 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.
14) 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."
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.
16) A tree for Peter
Author
Publisher
Purple House Press
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
When Peter, a fatherless lame boy living in Shantytown, meets Peter King, a mysterious, wandering stranger, his lonely life becomes filled with hope, friendship, and even miracles.
17) 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.--
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Language
English
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"Louisiana, 1875: In the tumultuous aftermath of Reconstruction, three young women set off as unwilling companions on a perilous quest: Lavinia, the pampered heir to a now-destitute plantation; Juneau Jane, her illegitimate free-born Creole half-sister; and Hannie, Lavinia's former slave. Each carries private wounds and powerful secrets as they head for Texas, following dangerous roads rife with ruthless vigilantes and soldiers still fighting a war...
19) 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.
20) Lucky strikes
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Set in Depression Era Virginia, this is the story of orphaned Amelia and her struggle to keep her siblings together"--
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