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Summary: "When Zezé grows up, he wants to be a poet in a bow tie. For now the precocious young boy entertains himself by playing clever pranks on the residents of his Rio de Janeiro neighborhood, stunts for which his parents and siblings punish him severely. Lately, with his father out of work, the beatings have become harsher. Zezé's only solace comes from his time at school, his hours secretly spent...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VASSidney, Margaret
Summary: Fatherless children, happy in spite of their impoverished condition, want to surprise their mother on her birthday. But how can they when they have no money?
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD SIDBudge, Kathleen M.
Summary: Drawing upon decades of research and myriad authentic classroom experiences, Kathleen Budge and William Parrett dispel harmful myths, explain the facts, and urge educators to act against the debilitating effects of poverty on their students. They share the powerful voices of teachers - many of whom grew up in poverty - to amplify the five classroom practices that permeate the culture of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: ASCD 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 379.2 BudYohannan, K. P.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gospel for Asia Books 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 305.568 YOHMadrick, Jeffrey G.
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.7 MADSchroff, Laura.
Summary: Shares the inspiring story of the author's first Christmas spent with Maurice, a poor young boy she met on the street, during which the boy gave her a cherished toy to demonstrate how much he valued their friendship.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Seasonal Juvenile Collection, Call number: J 921 SCHCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 921 SCHOgle, Rex
Summary: "A distinctive new voice: Rex Ogle's story of starting middle school on the free lunch program is timely, heartbreaking, and true. Free Lunch is the story of Rex Ogle's first semester in sixth grade. Rex and his baby brother often went hungry, wore secondhand clothes, and were short of school supplies, and Rex was on his school's free lunch program. Grounded in the immediacy of physical hunger...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton Young Readers, an imprint of W. W. Norton & Company 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 OGLSchroff, Laura
Summary: Eleven-year-old Maurice must beg for change in order to eat, but when Laura stops to help, they begin a years-long friendship that gives each a new perspective and hope. Includes a list of suggested acts of kindness.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2019
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Summary: Follows three young girls in the Quad Cities region of the United States whose families are struggling with finanical hardship.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2013
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV POOWingate, Lisa
Summary: Memphis, 1939. Twelve-year-old Rill Foss and her four younger siblings live a magical life aboard their family's Mississippi River shantyboat. But when their father must rush their mother to the hospital one stormy night, Rill is left in charge--until strangers arrive in force.Thrown into a Tennessee Children's Home Society orphanage, the Foss children find themselves at the mercy of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA Fiction WinDickens, Charles
Summary: Charles Dickens' classic tale of orphan Philip Pirrip. Struggling to grow into a gentleman, Philip faces many truths about the world around him and ultimately himself as his expectations are tested and questioned.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media 2008
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC DICWexler, Natalie
Summary: "The untold story of the root cause of America's education crisis--and the seemingly endless cycle of multigenerational poverty. It was only after years within the education reform movement that Natalie Wexler stumbled across a hidden explanation for our country's frustrating lack of progress when it comes to providing every child with a quality education. The problem wasn't one of the usual...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lightning Source Inc 0000
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC DICMason, C. Nicole
Summary: "While showing us her own path out of poverty, Mason examines the conditions that make it nearly impossible to escape and exposes the presumption harbored by many--that the poor don't help themselves enough"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 MASON, C. NICOLE MASPerry, Anne.
Summary: Three days before Christmas, in the freezing slums of London's East End, thirteen-year-old Gracie Phipps and eight-year-old Minnie Maude Mudway join together in a search for Charlie, the donkey who belonged to Minnie Maude's Uncle Alf. Gracie is shocked to learn that only the day before, someone brutally murdered Uncle Alf and made off with his rag-and-bones cart and the beloved beast who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M PERTwain, Mark
Summary: Two identical-looking boys--a prince and a pauper--trade clothes and step into each other's lives. While the urchin, Tom Canty, discovers luxury and power, Prince Edward, dressed in rags, roams his kingdom and experiences the cruelties inflicted on the poor by the Tudor monarchy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC TWABarnes, Steven.
Summary: An experimental technique to teach high-risk children the strategies that will allow them to succeed in life takes a nightmarish turn when it is discovered that the model for the project had a terrifying secret life that has been passed on to the children.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARSchroff, Laura.
Summary: He asked for spare change; she kept walking. But something made her turn around and go back. They met nearly every week for years, and built an unexpected, life-changing friendship that has today spanned almost three decades.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Howard Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SCHROFF, LAURA L SCHCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SchSummary: A vivid adaptation of Charles Dickens' powerful story of a young orphan boy who is released from his apprenticeship by a mysterious benefactor to be educated in London.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Boston Video 2004
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV GREDickens, Charles
Summary: The orphan, Pip, and the convict, Magwitch, the beautiful Estella, and her guardian, the embittered and vengeful Miss Havisham, the ambitious lawyer, Mr. Jaggers -- all have a part to play in the mystery. Dickens supplied two endings to his great novel, both are recorded leaving the listener to judge.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 1987
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: YA CD FIC DICSawyer, Kim Vogel.
Summary: Struggling to keep the Brambleville Asylum for the Poor running, Christina Willems turns to reclusive mill owner Levi Jonnson to take in a young blind boy named Tommy Kilgore. When an old adversary challenges Christina, will she find an unlikely ally --or more-- in the aloof Levi? Can Levi reconcile with the rejection that led to his hermit-like existence and open his heart and life to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Sawyer 2013Twain, Mark
Summary: When chance brings Edward Tudor and Tom Canty together, they decide for fun to switch clothes and places. Exchanging their roles as heir to the throne of England and as a pauper's son, they learn how the other half really lives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1997