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41) The orange shoes
Author
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
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.
44) Esos zapatos
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
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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.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
"By official count, more than one out of every six American children live beneath the poverty line. But statistics alone tell little of the story. In Invisible Americans, Jeff Madrick brings to light the often invisible reality and irreparable damage of child poverty in America. Keeping his focus on the children, he examines the roots of the problem, including the toothless remnants of our social welfare system, entrenched racism, and a government...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Book Group
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Over the last century, global poverty has largely been viewed as a technical problem that merely requires the right "expert" solutions. Yet all too often, experts recommend solutions that fix immediate problems without addressing the systemic political factors that created them in the first place. Further, they produce an accidental collusion with "benevolent autocrats," leaving dictators with yet more power to violate the rights of the poor.
Author
Series
Publisher
Barron's
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
With our 24/7 news cycle and constant access to the latest headlines, the world can be a scary place. Now imagine you're a child trying to make sense of it all! What does this news mean? How does it affect me? That's where Children in Our World can help. This beautifully illustrated non-fiction series takes a timely look at today's biggest issues and sensitively explains the crises that dominate the news in an appropriate way for young children. Each...
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"An opulent mythology through the labyrinthine streets and pages of Jerusalem tread ghosts that sing of wealth and poverty; of Africa, and hymns, and our threadbare millennium. They discuss English as a visionary language from John Bunyan to James Joyce, hold forth on the illusion of mortality post-Einstein, and insist upon the meanest slum as Blake's eternal holy city."--
49) A duet for home
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Description
"It's June’s first day at Huey House, and...[she] can't bring her cherished viola inside. Before the accident last year, her dad saved tip money for a year to buy her viola, and she's not about to give it up now. Tyrell has been at Huey House for three years and gives June a glimpse of the good things about living there: friendship, hot meals, and a classical musician next door. Can he and June work together to oppose the government, or will families...
50) The great Jeff
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Perfect for fans of Gary D. Schmidt comes the companion to the modern classic Firegirl from acclaimed writer Tony Abbott. Life hasn't been great for Jeff Hicks. After years at his beloved St. Catherine's, he's forced to spend eighth grade in the public middle school, which he hates. He's no longer speaking to his former best friend, Tom Bender, because of "that burned girl" Jessica Feeney. But worst of all, his family is changing, and it's not for...
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
"'I see multiple colonial governors,' says Ghanaian software entrepreneur Herman Chinery-Hesse of the international development establishment in Africa. 'We are held captive by the donor community.' The West has positioned itself as the protagonist of development, giving rise to a vast multi-billion dollar poverty industry - the business of doing good has never been better. Yet, the results have been mixed, in some cases even catastrophic, and leaders...
52) The dollar kids
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a family buys a house in a struggling town for just one dollar, they are hoping to start over, but they may have traded one set of problems for another.
53) If I grow up
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Growing up in the inner-city projects, DeShawn is reluctantly forced into the gang world by circumstances beyond his control.
Author
Publisher
Sentinel
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Description
"Widely acclaimed photographer and writer Chris Arnade shines new light on America's poor, drug-addicted, and forgotten--both urban and rural, blue state and red state--and indicts the elitists who've left them behind. Like Jacob Riis in the 1890s, Walker Evans in the 1930s, or Michael Harrington in the 1960s, Chris Arnade bares the reality of our current class divide in stark pictures and unforgettable true stories. Arnade's raw, deeply reported...
Author
Series
Irish Country books volume 6
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
In a novel that looks at the past of Dr. Fingal O'Reilly, Fingal enrolls at Dublin's Trinity College to study medicine, where he witnesses the plight of the city's poor, boxes and plays rugy, tries to keep up with his studies and work at Sir Patrick Dun's Hospital and romances a nurse named Kitty O'Hallorhan.
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
An influential, award-winning philosopher discusses that people have the same moral obligations to those far across the globe as they do to those nearby, and ignoring the needy far away has the same moral weight as ignoring a drowning child.
Author
Language
English
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Description
After years lived entirely within the confines of one small house, Dellarobia finds her path suddenly opening out and ultimately leading into blunt and confrontational engagement with her family, her church, her town, her continent, and finally the world at large. Over the course of a single winter, her life will become the property of the planet and, perhaps for the first time, securely her own.
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