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 709 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: 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 147 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: 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 294 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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    • 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 243 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: 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 352 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 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 19 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: 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 231 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: 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 1,008 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....

    Regular price: $16.20 or 1 credit

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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: 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 2,705 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: 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: Christina Soontornvat
    • Narrated by: Greta Jung
    • Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 03-24-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 164 ratings
    • All light in Chattana is created by one man - the Governor, who appeared after the Great Fire to bring peace and order to the city. For Pong, who was born in Namwon Prison, the magical lights represent freedom....

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    • By: Kate DiCamillo
    • Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
    • Length: 2 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 09-21-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1,867 ratings
    • When a fortuneteller’s tent appears in the market square of the city of Baltese, orphan Peter Augustus Duchene knows the questions that he needs to ask....

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    • By: Katherine Paterson
    • Narrated by: Melba Sibrel
    • Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 12-05-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 113 ratings
    • When Lyddie and her younger brother are hired out as servants to help pay off their family farm's debts, Lyddie is determined to find a way to reunite her family once again....

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    • A Memoir
    • By: David Ambroz
    • Narrated by: David Ambroz
    • Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 09-13-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 310 ratings
    • There are millions of homeless children in America today and in A Place Called Home, award-winning child welfare advocate David Ambroz writes about growing up homeless in New York for eleven years and his subsequent years in foster care....

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    • By: Varsha Bajaj
    • Narrated by: Reena Dutt
    • Length: 4 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 07-19-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 65 ratings
    • The riveting story of a heroic girl who fights for her belief that water should be for everyone....

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    • The Story of a Girl and Her Monster
    • By: Jonathan Auxier
    • Narrated by: Sarah Coomes
    • Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 09-25-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 879 ratings
    • Eleven-year-old Nan Sparrow is quite possibly the best climber who ever lived - and a girl. But when Nan gets stuck in a deadly chimney fire, she fears her time has come. Instead, she wakes to find herself in an abandoned attic. And she is not alone....

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    • By: Patricia Reilly Giff
    • Narrated by: Susan Lynch
    • Series: Nory Ryan, Book 1
    • Length: 3 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 01-08-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 65 ratings
    • Nory Ryan's family has lived on Maidin Bay on the west coast of Ireland for generations, raising a pig and a few chickens, planting potatoes, getting by....

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