Poverty & Homelessness
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Tune It Out
$8.99 Read moreFrom the author of the acclaimed Roll with It comes a moving novel about a girl with a sensory processing disorder who has to find her own voice after her whole world turns upside down.
Lou Montgomery- Author: Sumner, Jamie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 31 2021
- ISBN10: 1534457011
- Language: English
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10th Anniversary Edition The Life You Can Save: How To Do Your Part To End World Poverty
$19.95 Add to cartIn this Tenth Anniversary Edition of The Life You Can Save, Peter Singer brings his landmark book up to date. In addition to restating his compelling arguments about how we should respond to extreme p
- Author: Singer, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: December 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1733672702
- Language: English
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The Library Bus
$18.95 Add to cartAuthor Bahram Rahman grew up in Afghanistan during years of civil war and the restrictive Taliban regime of 1996-2001. He wrote The Library Bus to tell new generations about the struggles of women who
- Author: Rahman, Bahram
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: November 24 2020
- ISBN10: 1772781010
- Language: English
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Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
$32.00 Add to cartTHE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER IS NOW A MAJOR-MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY RON HOWARD AND STARRING AMY ADAMS, GLENN CLOSE, AND GABRIEL BASSO
“You will not read a more important book about America this
- Author: Vance, J. D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 28 2016
- ISBN10: 0062300547
- 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
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Diamond Boy
$19.99 Add to cartMy father says that a journey should always change your life in some way. Well, when you have nothing, I suppose a journey promises everything.
“Diamonds for everyone.” That’s what fifteen-year-old P- Author: Williams, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 05 2016
- ISBN10: 0316320684
- Language: English
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Paper Things
$9.99 Read more“Will engender empathy and understanding of a serious and all-too-real problem. Jacobson’s story is poignant but never preachy.” — School Library Journal (starred review)
When forced to choose betwee- Author: Jacobson, Jennifer Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 14, 2017
- ISBN10: 076369441X
- Language: English
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Home for Grace
$18.99 Read moreWhen a woman appears with a sleeping bag, living in a shop doorway, Jess is full of questions. Where is her home? Why did she leave? And what will happen when the snow comes?
Inspired by a case of unki
- Author: White, Kathryn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 9798765608326
- Language: English
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Junkyard Dogs
$18.99 Read moreA suspenseful and gut-wrenching story of an unhoused teenager struggling to survive a criminal scrapping ring while unraveling a dark family history
Josh’s father has gone missing without a trace, and- Author: Higgs-Coulthard, Katherine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1682635406
- Language: English
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Armando and the Blue Tarp School
$11.95 Read moreThe story of a young Mexican boy living in a colonia (trash dump community) who takes the first steps toward realizing his dream of getting an education.
Armando’s family is pepenadores, trash pickers,
- Author: Fine, Edith Hope
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: March 15 2014
- ISBN10: 1620141655
- Language: English
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The Fight to Save the Town: Reimagining Discarded America
$18.99 Add to cart- Author: Wilde Anderson, Michelle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 20 2023
- ISBN10: 1501195999
- Language: English
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The Patron Thief of Bread
$11.99 Add to cartA beautifully crafted middle-grade novel spiced with magic–and gargoyles!–from the acclaimed author of Hour of the Bees and Race to the Bottom of the Sea.
Fished from the river as an infant and rais- Author: Eagar, Lindsay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1536229601
- Language: English
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Simon B. Rhymin’
$16.99 Read moreA funny and heartwarming bounce-to-the-beat underdog story about a kid rapper whose rhymes bring his community together, by America’s favorite rapping teacher from Chicago.
As featured on Good Mornin- Series: Simon B. Rhymin’ #1
- Author: Reed, Dwayne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 02, 2021
- ISBN10: 0316538973
- Language: English
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A Wish in the Dark
$17.99 Add to cartA 2021 Newbery Honor Book
A boy on the run. A girl determined to find him. A compelling fantasy looks at issues of privilege, protest, and justice. All light in Chattana is created by one man — the G- Author: Soontornvat, Christina
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 24 2020
- ISBN10: 1536204943
- Language: English
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Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families
$22.99 Add to cartPulitzer Prize-winning author James Agee and renowned photgrapher Walker Evans’s Let Us Now Praise Famous Men is a landmark work of American photojournalism “renowned for its fusion of social conscien… [more below]
- Author: Evans, Walker
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: August 14 2001
- ISBN10: 0618127496
- Language: English
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Building an Orchestra of Hope: How Favio Chavez Taught Children to Make Music from Trash
$18.99 Add to cartAn exuberantly illustrated true story about innovation, community, and the power of music.
In Cateura, Paraguay, a town built on a landfill, music teacher Favio Chavez longed to help the families liv- Series: Stories from Latin America
- Author: Oliver, Carmen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 44
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 0802854672
- Language: English
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The In-Between
$19.99 Read moreFor fans of Enchanted Air by Margarita Engle and Life in Motion by Misty Copeland, this middle grade memoir in verse with “stellar writing [and] perfect pacing” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) chroni… [more below]
- Author: Van Heidrich, Katie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1665920122
- Language: English
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$2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America
$18.99 Add to cartA New York Times Notable Book of the Year
The story of a kind of poverty in America so deep that we, as a country, don’t even think exists–from a leading national poverty expert who “defies conventi… [more below]- Author: Edin, Kathryn J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 13 2016
- ISBN10: 054481195X
- Language: English
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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
$30.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE – NAMED ONE OF TIME‘S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE – One of the most acclaimed books of our time, this modern classic “has set a new… [more below]
- Author: Desmond, Matthew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: March 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0553447432
- Language: English
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Stay
$9.99 Add to cartFans of Pax and A Dog’s Way Home will love this heartwarming story of a girl living in a shelter and the homeless dog she’s determined to reunite with his family, now available in paperback.
Piper’s li
- Author: Pyron, Bobbie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 05 2020
- ISBN10: 0062839233
- Language: English
