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Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
386 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
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.
Author
Publisher
Peachtree Publishers
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
209 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Rox and her grandmother Mimi sell at a flea market every weekend to supplement the family's only income, that of construction worker and college student, cousin John Martin.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
320 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Lizzie St. Claire wants to be invisible. Forced to move out of her home, she and her mom now live in a transitional housing shelter, Good Hope, until they can get back on their feet. Lizzie just wants to keep her head down at Good Hope and her new school, so she doesn't have to admit the real reason she and her mom lost everything. But when Lizzie finds herself at the nearby Birchwood Stables, some new friends--along with the arrival of a frightened...
Author
Publisher
Jump at the Sun/Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
235 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Teenaged Raspberry Hill tries to sort out her confused feelings of disgust, shame, and love for her homeless, drug addicted father and worries that she may have inherited his lying and stealing ways.
Author
Language
English
Description
When thirteen-year-old Lora tells her parents that she wants to join Premier Castro's army of young literacy teachers, her mother screeches to high heaven, and her father roars like a lion. Lora has barely been outside of Havana -- why would she throw away her life in a remote shack with no electricity, sleeping on a hammock in somebody's kitchen? But Lora is stubborn: didn't her parents teach her to share what she has with someone in need? Surprisingly,...
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
145 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1948, eleven-year-old Audrey lives with her father, mother, and three younger sisters in Jewell Valley, a coal mining camp in Southwest Virginia, where her mother still mourns the death of a baby, her father goes on drinking binges on paydays, and Audrey tries to recover from the scarlet fever that has left her skinny and needing to wear glasses.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
156 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Warren takes you on a journey into the workhouses, slums, factories, and schools of Victorian England, and into the world of Dickens. She shows now he used his pen to do battle on behalf of the poor, becoming one of the great reformers of his or any age.
Author
Series
Logan family (Mildred D. Taylor) volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
During the Depression, a rural black family deeply attached to the forest on their land tries to save it from being cut down by an unscrupulous white man.
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
2003.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 134 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Photographs and text document the experiences of five individuals who came to live in the Lower East Side of New York City as children or young adults from Belarus, Italy, Lithuania, and Romania at the turn of the twentieth century.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
48 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Presents a view of New York City's tenements during the peak years of foreign immigration, discussing living conditions, laws pertaining to tenements, and the occupations of their residents.
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