Social Themes - Poverty & Homelessness
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The Roach King of Raleigh
$18.99 Add to cartFrom Schneider Family Award-winning author Shannon Stocker comes The Roach King of Raleigh, an unflinching YA novel about a high school sophomore who’s determined to rise above his circumstances–even
- Author: Stocker, Shannon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 24 2026
- ISBN10: 0310178398
- Language: English
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Make Lemonade
$10.99 Add to cartAn award-winning novel about growing up and making choices
Viginia Euwer Wolff’s groundbreaking novel, written in free verse, tells the story of fourteen-year-old LaVaughn, who is determined to go to c- Series: Make Lemonade Trilogy (Paperback)
- Author: Wolff, Virginia Euwer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 02 2006
- ISBN10: 0805080708
- Language: English
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Torn
$7.99 Add to cartPerry Fletcher is a straight-A student in high school with a chance for a track scholarship. But he wrecks his knee chasing a thief who steals a package off his porch. What does Perry learn about life
- Series: Finding Forward
- Author: Thompson, Russ
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 110
- Publish Date: July 31 2022
- ISBN10: 1737315750
- 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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Find Layla
$9.99 Read moreA neglected girl’s chaotic coming-of-age becomes a trending new hashtag in a novel about growing up and getting away by an award-winning author.
Underprivileged and keenly self-aware, SoCal fourteen-ye
- Author: Elison, Meg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 188
- Publish Date: September 01, 2020
- ISBN10: 1542019788
- Language: English
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Far Less
$13.99 Add to cartFrom atop a towering redwood tree, seventeen-year-old Jesse can see beyond the difficult reality of his life on the ground. Homeless, Jesse camps in the forest with his drug-addicted mom and little si
- Author: Wollenberg, Kathy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 222
- Publish Date: January 14 2020
- ISBN10: 1947112333
- Language: English
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Sleeping in My Jeans
$16.00 Add to cartSixteen-year-old Mattie Rollins has it all figured out. She’ll ace her advanced high school courses, earn a college scholarship, and create a new life for herself and her family. There’s no time for d
- Author: Leonard, Connie King
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 13 2018
- ISBN10: 1947845004
- Language: English
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My Heart is Hurting
$14.99 Add to cartJinny Buffett is lonely…
She’s never had the comfort of a white picket fence with a loving family. Her subsidized apartment in Hollywood Florida echoes with the void of her dead Daddy, and the nights
- Author: Reed, S. E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 182
- Publish Date: July 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1958531251
- Language: English
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Sun Don’t Shine
$18.95 Read moreSixteen-year-old Reece is an expert at keeping secrets. She has to be, since her father abducted her ten years ago. For as long as she can remember, she’s been on the run, sneaking food out of the dum… [more below]
- Author: Chappell, Crissa-Jean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 172
- Publish Date: January 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1646034309
- Language: English
