Poverty & Homelessness
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We Called It a War: Lessons Learned from the Fight to End Poverty
$26.99 Add to cartWe Called It a War: Lessons Learned from the Fight to End Poverty is a first-hand account of Sargent Shriver’s leadership of the War on Poverty, which he undertook under President Lyndon Johnson betwe
- Author: Shriver, Sargent
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 394
- Publish Date: April 20 2026
- ISBN10: 1627206663
- Language: English
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The Lost and the Found: A True Story of Homelessness, Found Family, and Second Chances
$19.00 Add to cartA “riveting, deeply compassionate” (The New York Times) narrative of homelessness, despair, and hope.Award-winning San Francisco Chronicle journalist Kevin Fagan has been covering homelessness for dec… [more below]
- Author: Fagan, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 10 2026
- ISBN10: 1668017121
- Language: English
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Road Home
$10.99 Add to cartWhen Rex was outed the summer after he graduated high school, his father gave him a choice: he could stay at home, find a girlfriend, and attend church twice a week, or he could be gay–and leave. Rex
- Author: Ogle, Rex
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: March 03 2026
- ISBN10: 1324083271
- Language: English
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Saturday at the Food Pantry
$9.99 Add to cartChicago Public Library Best Picture Books of 2021
A sensitive story about food insecurity. Molly and her mom don’t always have enough food, so one Satur
Parents Magazine October 2021 Book of the Month- Author: O’Neill, Diane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: April 09 2026
- ISBN10: 0807572950
- Language: English
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Asad’s Secret: A Novel of Gaza
$17.99 Add to cartA window into a world most people see depicted only in seconds-long news reports, one that we all should look through in order to recognize the genuine humanity within.
Asad lives in Gaza, in a tiny h- Author: Attaallah, Najlaa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 16 2026
- ISBN10: 1646146298
- Language: English
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Almost Home: Helping Kids Move from Homelessness to Hope
$19.99 Add to cartInside the lives of homeless teens–moving stories of pain and hope from Covenant House
Almost Home tells the stories of six remarkable young people from across the United States and Canada as they con
- Author: Ryan, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 01 2012
- ISBN10: 1118230477
- Language: English
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The Missing ‘Gator of Gumbo Limbo
$9.99 Add to cartAn exciting ecological mystery for tweens featuring a missing ‘gator in the Florida Everglades, by Jean Craighead George, the beloved Newbery Medal-winning author of Julie of the Wolves and My Side of
- Author: George, Jean Craighead
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: March 19 1993
- ISBN10: 006440434X
- Language: English
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Why Democracy Needs the Rich
$32.99 Add to cartWhy Democracy Needs the Rich challenges the prevailing belief that wealth undermines democracy, offering instead a bracing, thought-provoking claim that the rich play an essential role in sustaining a… [more below]
- Author: McGinnis, John O.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 24 2026
- ISBN10: 1641774630
- Language: English
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The Shark Prince
$18.99 Add to cartFrom the award-winning author of the Lei and the Legends duology comes a sharp new fantasy about a Hawaiian boy who can transform into what people fear most: a shark.
In a small Hawaiian village, Nohe- Author: Maunakea, Malia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 05 2026
- ISBN10: 0593890728
- Language: English
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There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America
$20.00 Add to cartONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES AND THE ATLANTIC’S TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR – ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR – Through the “revelatory and gut-wrenching” (Associated Press) stories of fi… [more below]
- Author: Goldstone, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: March 03 2026
- ISBN10: 0593237161
- Language: English
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Home Is a Door We Carry
$19.95 Add to cartI miss my home; if only I could shrink him with a magic spell and carry him with me! Or what if he was big and strong enough to protect us on our long journey?
After meeting many children forced to fl
- Author: Satüpo, Constantin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 52
- Publish Date: April 07 2026
- ISBN10: 1632064219
- Language: English
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Hunger Savers Club
$9.99 Add to cartWhen Emma learns that some people go hungry because they don’t have enough money for food, she enlists the help of her friends at school to do something about it.
The children collect donations from
- Author: Daali, Aya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: August 01 2025
- ISBN10: 9798896050070
- Language: English
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Hope for the Mission: Getting It Right in the Call to End Homelessness
$19.99 Add to cartTo end homelessness, we don’t have to choose between faith and facts
For over a century, the primary Christian ministry model for the un-housed in North America has been gospel rescue missions that off
- Author: Nye, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 03 2026
- ISBN10: 1513816942
- Language: English
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Clayton
$22.99 Add to cartCLAYTON is a riveting novel that brings to life the failed hopes and dreams of one man…..a heartbreaking story of homelessness and how one gets there. The book brings out the stark realities of addi
- Author: Stahr, Missy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 454
- Publish Date: January 06 2026
- ISBN10: 9798318820632
- Language: English
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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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Tell Them Who I Am: The Lives of Homeless Women
$27.00 Add to cart“One of the very best things ever written about homeless people in the nation.”–Jonathan Kozol.
- Author: Liebow, Elliot
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 01 1995
- ISBN10: 014024137X
- Language: English
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Shy Cat and the Stuff-The-Bus Challenge
$17.95 Add to cart“This is the story of everything that happened after my friend Kit had a meltdown at school.”
Best friends Mila and Kit spend their days doing fun things: they go to the skate park, play Truth or Dar
- Series: Shy Cat
- Author: Day, Dian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: March 03 2026
- ISBN10: 1772604453
- Language: English
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The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap
$23.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST, NPR, AND KIRKUS REVIEWS
A scathing portrait of an urgent new American crisis
Over the last two decades, A- Author: Taibbi, Matt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 21 2014
- ISBN10: 0812983637
- Language: English
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Roy the Homeless Boy
$18.99 Add to cartWhat if everything you dreamed could come true – just by writing it down?
When Roy’s drawing comes to life, he finds himself on an unforgettable adventure at the state fair, filled with glowing lights,
- Author: Juarez, Roy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 46
- Publish Date: November 27 2025
- ISBN10: 195550976X
- Language: English
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The Cabbage Seed’s Colossal Secret
$18.99 Add to cartA child plants a tiny seed and wonders what secrets it might hold.
As it grows and grows and grows, she nurtures the little plant until it isn’t so little anymore–in fact, it’s COLOSSAL. What does o
- Author: Greenwald, Karen M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: February 17 2026
- ISBN10: 1668955156
- Language: English
