McKissack, Pat
Summary: Despite their own poverty since Daddy died, Mama tells nine-year-old James Otis they need to help Sarah, whose family lost everything in a fire.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Schwartz & Wade Books 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MckissackAnderson, Michelle W.
Summary: Decades of cuts to local government amidst rising concentrations of poverty have wreaked havoc on communities left behind by the modern economy. Some of these discarded places are rural. Others are big cities, small cities, or historic suburbs. Some vote blue, others red. Some are the most diverse communities in America, while others are nearly all white, all Latino, or all Black. All are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avid Reader Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 339.4 AndersonLand, Stephanie
Summary: Land's plans of breaking free from the roots of her hometown in the Pacific Northwest to chase her dreams were cut short when a summer fling turned into an unexpected pregnancy. She turned to housekeeping to make ends meet, took classes online to earn a college degree. And she wrote relentlessly: true stories of overworked and underpaid Americans; of living on food stamps and WIC coupons. Here...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 Land 2019Payne, Ruby
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.569 PayneOtto, Mary
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 617.600 OttoShulevitz, Uri
Summary: A retelling of the traditional English tale in which a poor man follows the advice of his dream and is eventually led to a treasure.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus, Giroux 1978
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ShulVance, J. D.
Summary: "J.D. Vance's grandparents moved north from Kentucky's Appalachia region to Ohio in the hopes of escaping the dreadful poverty around them. They raised a middle-class family, and eventually their grandchild would graduate from Yale Law School, a conventional marker of their success in achieving generational upward mobility. However, Vance's family struggled profoundly with the demands of their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio 2016
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1 available in Adult Audiobooks, Call number: CDBK 305.56 VanceSummary: "How do 1.1 billion people around the world live on less than one dollar a day? Four young friends set out to research and live this reality. Armed with only a video camera and a desire to understand, they spend just 56 dollars each for 56 days in rural Pena Blanca, Guatemala. They battle E.Coli, financial stress, and the realization that there are no easy answers. Yet, the generosity and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Creative Visions] 2013
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1 available in Movies, Call number: DVD 305.56 LivingSummary: When filthy rich video store magnate Johnny Rose, his soap star wife Moira, and their two kids suddenly find themselves broke, they are forced to live in a small, depressing town they once bought as a joke. With their pampered lives now abandoned, they must confront their newfound poverty and discover what it means to be a family, all within the rural city limits of their new home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Movies, Call number: DVD SchittsCurtis, Christopher
Summary: With love and determination befitting the "world's greatest family," twelve-year-old Deza Malone, her older brother Jimmie, and their parents endure tough times in Gary, Indiana, and later Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wendy Lamb Books 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FICTION CurtisWingate, Lisa
Summary: "Louisiana, 1875: In the tumultuous aftermath of Reconstruction, three young women set off as unwilling companions on a perilous quest: Lavinia, the pampered heir to a now-destitute plantation; Juneau Jane, her illegitimate free-born Creole half-sister; and Hannie, Lavinia's former slave. Each carries private wounds and powerful secrets as they head for Texas, following dangerous roads rife...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION WingateArmstrong, William H.
Summary: Angry and humiliated when his sharecropper father is jailed for stealing food for his family, a young black boy grows in courage and understanding by learning to read and with the help of the devoted dog Sounder.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper & Row, c1969. 1969
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FICTION ArmstCaldwell, Erskine
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1932
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION CaldwPatchett, Ann
Summary: At the end of the Second World War, Cyril Conroy combines luck and a single canny investment to begin an enormous real estate empire, propelling his family from poverty to enormous wealth. His first order of business is to buy the Dutch House, a lavish estate in the suburbs outside of Philadelphia. Meant as a surprise for his wife, the house sets in motion the undoing of everyone he loves....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION PatchettPatchett, Ann
Summary: At the end of the Second World War, Cyril Conroy combines luck and a single canny investment to begin an enormous real estate empire, propelling his family from poverty to enormous wealth. His first order of business is to buy a lavish estate in the suburbs outside of Philadelphia. Meant as a surprise for his wife, the house sets in motion the undoing of everyone he loves. The story is told by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Collins Publishers 2019
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1 available in Adult Audiobooks, Call number: CDBK FICTION PatchettCollins, Chuck
Contents: Introduction: time to come home -- I heart the 1 percent -- Proceed with empathy -- Cracking hearts open -- I didn't do it alone -- In the same boat: on the road with Bill Gates -- The privilege drug -- The greatest subsidized generation -- Black wealth, brown wealth, white wealth -- Unequal opportunity -- Miro in the bathroom: encounters with the charitable industrial complex -- When charity...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.484 CollinFrazier, Ian
Summary: "A generous selection of Frazier's most sophisticated and uproarious feature stories"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814.54 FrazierLee, Sungju.
Summary: "This is YA nonfiction. It's the memoir of a boy named Sungju who grew up in North Korea and, at the age of twelve, was forced to live on the streets and fend for himself after his parents disappeared. Finally, after years of being homeless and living with a gang, Sungju is reunited with his maternal grandparents and, eventually, his father"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Y 921 LeeShin, Ann
Summary: "Jin and Suja meet and fall in love while studying at university in Pyongyang. She is a young journalist from a prominent family, while he is from a small village of little means. Outside the school, North Korea has fallen under great political upheaval, plunged into chaos and famine. When Jin returns home to find his family starving, their food rations all but gone, he makes a rash decision...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Park Row Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION ShinYunus, Muhammad
Contents: Prologue : starting with a handshake -- The promise of social business -- A new kind of business -- Social business : what it is and what it is not -- The Grameen experiment -- The microcredit revolution -- From microcredit to social business -- The battle against poverty : Bangladesh and beyond -- God is in the details -- One cup of yogurt a a time -- A world without poverty -- Broadening the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2007