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Author
Publisher
The Evansville Christian Life Center
Pub. Date
c2015
Language
English
Description
"Jeremiah had quite an adventure discovering a world beyond the walls of his village, Cheddarton. Through the process he also discovered a friend, a flood, and that 'when we work together we all get better.' Join him in this picture book designed to spark family discussions on poverty"--Page [4] of cover.
2) Blue willow
Author
Series
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
1976.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
A little girl, who wants most of all to have a real home and to go to a regular school, hopes that the valley her family has come to, which so resembles the pattern on her treasured blue willow plate, will be their permanent home.
3) Sounder
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Angry and humiliated when his sharecropper father is jailed for stealing food for his family, a young black boy grows in courage and understanding with the help of the devoted dog Sounder, and also by learning to read.
Author
Series
Publisher
Moody Press
Pub. Date
[2002?]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
In a mountain village in Morocco, an Englishwoman transforms the lives of her visiting niece, a blind baby girl, and an eleven-year-old boy through her work as a missionary nurse.
6) Code red
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old former elite gymnast Eden is feeling lost after a career-ending injury, but when she meets new friends who open her eyes to period poverty, the struggle that low-income people have trying to afford menstrual products, she becomes an advocate for fair treatment and rediscovers her passion and drive.
7) Golden arm
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lazarus Weathers, a high school senior from the wrong side of the tracks, seeks to protect his half-brother while pitching his way out of poverty, one strike at a time.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When her grandmother reveals that the daughter that she had given up for adoption is coming from America to visit her Vietnamese family, nine-year-old Binh is convinced that her newly-discovered aunt is wealthy and will take care of all the family's
Author
Series
Publisher
Barbour
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Cincinnatian Grace Morgan is fed up with the unkempt boy who harrasses her quiet cousin, but she sees things differently when their town is hit by a serious drought and she and her family get a taste of poverty.
10) Lucky strikes
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"Set in Depression Era Virginia, this is the story of orphaned Amelia and her struggle to keep her siblings together"--
11) Omar rising
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Omar must contend with being treated like a second-class citizen when he gets a scholarship to an elite boarding school--
12) Crunch: a novel
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
On a church-sponsored trip to Mexico to build homes for the poor, surfer Bethany Hamilton meets a five-year-old boy whose foot needs to be amputated, and she vows to help him no matter what it costs her.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Taken in by a poor family in a rural village after the death of her father, Sunflower bonds with the family's only child, Bronze, who has not spoken since being traumatized by a terrible fire.
16) Marie, dancing
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
A fictionalized autobiography of Marie Van Goethem, the impoverished student from the Paris Opera ballet school who became the model for Edgar Degas's famous sculpture, "The Little Dancer."
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
During the Great Depression, twelve-year-old Artie Wilson, determined to escape plowing and planting the fields and milking the cow on her family's farm, longs to leave Buck Creek, Kentucky, and her life of poverty.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
When his father is arrested as a debtor in 1849 London, fourteen-year-old John Huffman must take on unexpected responsibilities, from asking a distant relative for help to determining why people are spying on him and his family.
20) Curiosity
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
In 1835, when his father's put in a Philadelphia debtor's prison, 12-year-old chess prodigy Rufus Goodspeed is relieved to be recruited to secretly operate a chess-playing automaton named The Turk, but soon questions the fate of his predecessors and his own safety.
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