Child Poverty

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    • Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City
    • By: Andrea Elliott
    • Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
    • Length: 21 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 10-05-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 706 ratings
    • Andrea Elliott follows eight dramatic years in the life of Dasani, a girl whose imagination is as soaring as the skyscrapers near her Brooklyn shelter, weaving the story of her childhood with the history of her ancestors, tracing their passage from slavery to the Great Migration north....

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    • By: Karina Yan Glaser
    • Narrated by: Robin Miles
    • Series: The Vanderbeekers, Book 4
    • Length: 5 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 09-15-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 290 ratings
    • When autumn arrives on 141st Street, the Vanderbeekers are busy helping Mr. Beiderman get ready for the New York City Marathon and making sure the mysterious person sleeping in the community garden gets enough to eat....

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    • Class, Race, and Family Life, Second Edition, with an Update a Decade Later
    • By: Annette Lareau
    • Narrated by: Xe Sands
    • Length: 14 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 11-14-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 129 ratings
    • Class does make a difference in the lives and futures of American children....

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    • By: Gloria Whelan
    • Narrated by: Zehra Jane Naqvi
    • Length: 3 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 04-19-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 31 ratings
    • Like many girls her age in India, thirteen-year-old Koly faces her arranged marriage with hope and courage. But Koly's story takes a terrible turn when in the wake of the ceremony, she discovers she's been horribly misled—her life has been sold for a dowry....

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    • By: Cynthia Voigt
    • Narrated by: Barbara Caruso
    • Series: Tillerman Family, Book 1
    • Length: 13 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 10-25-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 351 ratings
    • 13-year-old Dicey Tillerman sits in the car at the shopping mall with her younger sister and two brothers. Momma had said, "You be good", but Momma never comes back....

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    • A Young Reader’s Edition
    • By: Laura Schroff, Alex Tresniowski
    • Narrated by: Laura Schroff, Emily Sutton-Smith
    • Length: 5 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 06-28-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 41 ratings
    • An Invisible Thread is the true story of the bond between an 11-year-old boy and a busy sales executive; a heartwarming journey of hope, kindness, adventure, and love - and the power of fate to help us find our way....

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    • A Story of the Cherokee Trail of Tears
    • By: Cornelia Cornelissen
    • Narrated by: Kelsey Navarro
    • Length: 2 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 11-17-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • It 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 west....

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    • By: Will Hobbs
    • Narrated by: Ramon De Ocampo
    • Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 08-21-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 137 ratings
    • With nothing but dogged determination, 15year-old Victor leaves his Mexican village to illegally enter the U.S. and help his starving family....

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    • By: Dusti Bowling
    • Narrated by: Aaron Shedlock
    • Length: 5 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 06-25-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 79 ratings
    • Welcome to Nowhere, Arizona, the least livable town in the United States. For Gus, a bright 13-year-old with dreams of getting out and going to college, life there is made even worse by Bo Taylor, Nowhere's biggest, baddest bully....

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    • By: K.A. Holt
    • Narrated by: Alex Kydd
    • Length: 4 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 02-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 144 ratings
    • Timothy is on probation. It's a strange word - something that happens to other kids, to delinquents, not to kids like him. And yet, he is under house arrest for the next year....

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    • By: Rex Ogle
    • Narrated by: Ramon De Ocampo
    • Length: 5 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 09-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 237 ratings
    • 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....

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    • By: Katherine Rundell
    • Narrated by: Bianca Amato
    • Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 12-24-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 35 ratings
    • Even a life on the untamed plains of Africa can't prepare Wilhelmina for the wilds of an English boarding school in this lovely and lyrical novel from the author of Rooftoppers....

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    • By: Ann Braden
    • Narrated by: Amy Melissa Bentley
    • Length: 6 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 02-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 230 ratings
    • Seventh-grader Zoey has her hands full as she takes care of her much younger siblings after school every day while her mom works her shift at the pizza parlor. Not that her mom seems to appreciate it. Zoey thinks how much easier everything would be if she were an octopus....

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    • By: Matt De La Pena
    • Narrated by: Lizan Mitchell
    • Length: 7 mins
    • Release date: 03-06-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 85 ratings
    • Every Sunday after church, CJ and his grandma ride the bus across town. But today, CJ wonders why they don't own a car like his friend Colby....

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    • By: Kashmira Sheth
    • Narrated by: Neil Shah
    • Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 01-05-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • For 11-year-old Gopal and his family, life in their rural Indian village is over: We stay, we starve, his baba has warned. With the darkness of night as cover, they flee to the big city of Mumbai in hopes of finding work and a brighter future....

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    • By: Gary Paulsen
    • Narrated by: Mark Hammer
    • Length: 2 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 10-23-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 30 ratings
    • An orphan in a Mexican border town meets an American army sergeant - and hopes the sergeant will help him cross the border to a better life in the United States....

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    • By: Katherine Applegate
    • Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
    • Length: 3 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 09-22-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,006 ratings
    • Jackson and his family have fallen on hard times. There's no more money for rent, and not much for food, either. His parents, his little sister, and their dog may have to live in their minivan. Again....

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    • By: Pam Munoz Ryan
    • Narrated by: Trini Alvarado
    • Length: 4 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 10-31-03
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,700 ratings
    • Esperanza Ortega possesses all the treasures a young girl could want: fancy dresses; a beautiful home filled with servants in the bountiful region of Aguascalientes...

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    • By: Sarah Darer Littman
    • Narrated by: Amanda Dolan
    • Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 03-31-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • Abby quickly feels like she's losing a grip on her once-happy life. The only thing she cares about anymore is talking to Luke, a guy she met online, who understands. It feels dangerous and yet good to chat with Luke - he is her secret, and she's his....

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