Poverty & Homelessness
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A Place Called Home: A Memoir
$30.00 Read morePORCHLIGHT BESTSELLER
A galvanizing, stirring memoir about growing up homeless and in foster care and rising to become a leading advocate for child welfare, recogni
Zibby Owens 2022 Book of the Year- Author: Ambroz, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 13, 2022
- ISBN10: 0306903547
- Language: English
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Crenshaw
$19.99 Add to cartIn her first novel since The One and Only Ivan, winner of the Newbery Medal, Katherine Applegate delivers an unforgettable and magical story about family, friendship, and resilience.
Jackson and his fa- Author: Applegate, Katherine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 22 2015
- ISBN10: 1250043239
- Language: English
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I Like, I Don’t Like
$16.00 Add to cartNational Council for the Social Studies-Children’s Book Council: 2018 Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People
An eye-opening introduction to an important issue The UN Convention on the Ri- Author: Baccelliere, Anna
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 28
- Publish Date: March 06 2017
- ISBN10: 080285480X
- Language: English
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What Is Given from the Heart
$19.99 Add to cartCORETTA SCOTT KING – JOHN STEPTOE ILLUSTRATOR AWARD FOR NEW TALENT WINNER
This final, magnificent picture book from three-time Coretta Scott King Award winner and Newbery Honor author Patricia McKissa- Author: McKissack, Patricia C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: January 08 2019
- ISBN10: 0375836152
- Language: English
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Colorful Mondays: A Bookmobile Spreads Hope in Honduras
$17.99 Read moreThe United States Board on Books for Young People (USBBY) Outstanding International Books List – PreK-2 (2024)
A beautiful, empowering story about the impact of literacy in underprivileged communitie- Series: Stories from Latin America
- Author: Rodríguez, Nelson
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 36
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 0802856160
- Language: English
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Simon B. Rhymin’
$8.99 Add to cartA 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 18 2022
- ISBN10: 0316538965
- Language: English
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Bo and the Community Garden
$9.99 Read moreBo and his friends are working on a community garden at school. But what if they can’t agree on what to plant? See what they decide as Bo learns about the benefits of the garden.
Bo’s life is always b
- Series: Bo at the Buzz (Read Woke (Tm) Chapter Books)
- Author: Smith, Elliott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: January 01, 2023
- ISBN10: 1728486319
- Language: English
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Home in the Woods
$18.99 Add to cartThis stunningly beautiful picture book from New York Times bestselling author-illustrator Eliza Wheeler is based on her grandmother’s childhood and pays homage to a family’s fortitude as they discover
- Author: Wheeler, Eliza
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: October 01, 2019
- ISBN10: 0399162909
- Language: English
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Luna Ranchera
$18.99 Add to cartWelcome to the show! Bienvenidos! This rags-to-riches tale of a doggy mother-daughter singing act in the Nuevo Wild West will enchant dog lovers, music lovers, and anyone looking for new Latinx voice
- Author: Morlesin, Rodrigo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 56
- Publish Date: June 20, 2023
- ISBN10: 1662651104
- Language: English
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Home
$16.99 Add to cartIn the brown house, Claire and Wes were home. But home turned to nowhere and nowhere turned to anywhere. Then somewhere finally came, and finally, always.
This lyrical story is timely and thoughtful- Author: Lippert, Tonya
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: February 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1433836866
- Language: English
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Soft Rain: A Story of the Cherokee Trail of Tears
$7.99 Add to cartIt all begins when Soft Rain’s teacher reads a letter stating that as of May 23, 1838, all Cherokee people are to leave their land and move to what many Cherokees called “the land of darkness”. . .the… [more below]
- Author: Cornelissen, Cornelia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 09, 1999
- ISBN10: 0440412420
- Language: English
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The Magician’s Elephant Movie Tie-In
$8.99 Read moreKate DiCamillo’s New York Times best-selling fable about trusting the unexpected and making the extraordinary come true is now available in a movie tie-in edition.
When a fortuneteller’s tent appears- Author: DiCamillo, Kate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 17, 2023
- ISBN10: 1536230316
- Language: English
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Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother’s Will to Survive
$19.99 Add to cart“A single mother’s personal, unflinching look at America’s class divide (Barack Obama),” this New York Times bestselling memoir is the inspiration for the Netflix limited series, hailed by Rolling Sto
- Author: Land, Stephanie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 21, 2020
- ISBN10: 0316505099
- Language: English
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I Can’t Breathe: A Killing on Bay Street
$18.00 Read moreA work of riveting literary journalism that explores the roots and repercussions of the infamous killing of Eric Garner by the New York City police–from the bestselling author of The Divide
NAMED ONE- Author: Taibbi, Matt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 04, 2018
- ISBN10: 081298885X
- Language: English
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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
$20.00 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 28 2017
- ISBN10: 0553447459
- Language: English
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Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt
$24.99 Add to cartTwo years ago, Pulitzer Prize winner Chris Hedges and award-winning cartoonist and journalist Joe Sacco set out to take a look at the sacrifice zones, those areas in America that have been offered up … [more below]
- Author: Hedges, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 08 2014
- ISBN10: 1568588240
- Language: English
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Esperanza Renace (Esperanza Rising) (Scholastic Gold)
$7.99 Add to cartA Mexican “Grapes of Wrath,” based on a family story, from the award-winning author of Riding Freedom.
Esperanza Ortega tiene todos los tesoros que una chica pueda desear: hermosos vestidos, una linda
- Author: Ryan, Pam Muñoz
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 01, 2002
- ISBN10: 0439398851
- Language: Spanish
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The Soloist: A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music
$18.00 Add to cartThe New York Times bestselling true story that inspired the major motion picture–an “unforgettable tale of hope, heart and humanity”(People).
Journalist Steve Lopez discovered of Nathaniel Ayers, a f- Author: Lopez, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 04 2010
- ISBN10: 0425238369
- Language: English
