Poverty Kids

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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 268 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: Matthew Desmond
    • Narrated by: Dion Graham
    • Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 03-21-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,006 ratings
    • The United States, the richest country on earth, has more poverty than any other advanced democracy....

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    • What Being Poor Does to Kids' Brains and What Schools Can Do About It
    • By: Eric Jensen
    • Narrated by: Basil Sands
    • Length: 6 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 02-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 79 ratings
    • Educator and brain expert Eric Jensen takes an unflinching look at how poverty hurts children, families, and communities across the US and demonstrates how schools can improve the academic achievement and life readiness of economically disadvantaged students....

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Philip N. Jefferson
    • Narrated by: Leon Nixon
    • Length: 4 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 11-13-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • In this Very Short Introduction, Philip N. Jefferson explores how the answers to these questions lie in the social, political, economic, educational, and technological processes that impact all of us throughout our lives. The degree of vulnerability is all that differentiates us....

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    • The Kids Nobody Wants and the Doctor Who Heals Them
    • By: Randy Christensen M.D., Rene Denfeld
    • Narrated by: Johnny Heller
    • Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 05-04-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 43 ratings
    • Ask Me Why I Hurt is the touching and revealing first-person account of the remarkable work of Dr. Randy Christensen....

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    • How One Man’s Journey Through Poverty, Disability and Delinquency is Transforming the Juvenile Justice System
    • By: Hasan Davis JD
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 5 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 03-30-25
    • Language: English
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    • This book is the culmination of a lifetime of love and lessons that have shaped my personal journey from a young man in crisis to a champion for ...

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    • The Homeless Journey of America's Forgotten Teens
    • By: Alexandra Fisher
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 1 hr and 35 mins
    • Release date: 02-16-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Alexandra Fisher is a passionate advocate for social justice and a champion of the rights of vulnerable youth. With a background in social work and...

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    • Kids Can Help
    • By: Emily Raij
    • Narrated by: uncredited
    • Length: 16 mins
    • Release date: 04-24-24
    • Language: English
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    • Make the world a better place for people in need! This book is full of ideas and projects listeners can put into action to fight poverty.

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    • By: Bekezela Broscius
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 3 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 04-01-25
    • Language: English
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    • A missing father. A mysterious stalker. One week to save her home. Twelve-year-old Lorraine’s world is falling apart. The rent on her tiny ...

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    • By: Matthew Desmond
    • Narrated by: Dion Graham
    • Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 03-21-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • The United States is the richest country on earth, yet has more poverty than any other advanced democracy. In Poverty, by America, acclaimed sociologist Matthew Desmond examines the nature of American poverty today and the stories we tell ourselves about it....

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    • The Lives of Runaway and Thrownaway Teens, Second Edition
    • By: R. Barri Flowers
    • Narrated by: Wendy Almeida
    • Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 04-08-19
    • Language: English
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    • Street Kids: The Lives of Runaway and Thrownaway Teens, Second Edition, by award-winning and best-selling criminologist R. Barri Flowers, is an audiobook that examines the pathway from home to homeless for runaways and thrownaways, including precursors to life on the street...

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    • Self-help Collection about Ultimate 80 Reasons Why People Go Broke Despite Working
    • By: Brad Kong
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 16 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 04-18-24
    • Language: English
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    • "Why had Germany lost WWII? I think Germans focused on something not bringing them direct victory – they didn't fight in constructive ways. ...

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    • How a Mixed-Race Kid Overcame Racism, Poverty, and Abuse to Arrive at the American Dream
    • By: JeVon McCormick
    • Narrated by: Amir Abdullah, JeVon McCormick
    • Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 07-30-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • He was born the mixed-race son of a negligent, drug-dealing pimp father and a struggling single mother. He was raised in the slums of Dayton, Ohio, suffered incredible abuse and racism. No one expected him to succeed. But succeed he did....

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    • America's Lost Street Kids
    • By: Vivian Ho
    • Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
    • Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 09-01-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 74 ratings
    • In Those Who Wander, Vivian Ho delves deep into a rising subculture that’s changing the fabric of her city and urban America. Moving beyond the disheartening statistics, she gives voices to these people - victims of abuse, failed foster care, mental illness, and drug addiction....

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    • By: Russell Freedman
    • Narrated by: Ellen Archer
    • Length: 39 mins
    • Release date: 08-28-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • America meant "freedom" to the immigrants of the early 1900s - but a freedom very different from what they expected. Cities were crowded and jobs were scare. Children had to work selling newspapers, delivering goods, and laboring sweatshops....

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    • By: Matthew Landis
    • Narrated by: Matt Braver, Stacy Gonzalez
    • Length: 6 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 11-08-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Eight hundred seventy-eight dollars. That’s how much Ronny needs to make by January 4 to keep his family’s only car from getting repossessed....

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