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2) Coal River
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In this vibrant new historical novel, the acclaimed author of The Plum Tree and What She Left Behind explores one young woman's determination to put an end to child labor in a Pennsylvania mining town... As a child, Emma Malloy left isolated Coal River, Pennsylvania, vowing never to return. Now, orphaned and penniless at nineteen, she accepts a train ticket from her aunt and uncle and travels back to the rough-hewn community. Treated like a servant...
Author
Publisher
Tin House
Physical Desc
327 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"At fifty-one years old, twins Jeanie and Julius still live with their mother, Dot, in rural isolation in the English countryside. The cottage they have shared their entire lives is their only protection against the modernizing world around them. Inside its walls, they make music, and in its garden, they grow everything they need to survive. To an outsider, it looks like poverty; to them, it is home. But when Dot dies unexpectedly, the world they've...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
208 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"From author Willy Vlautin comes an exploration of greed and opportunism, set amidst a rapidly gentrifying city-a novel taking place over 48 hours in which a young woman must push herself to her limits to get the security she needs for herself and her family"--
6) Crenshaw
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"A story about a homeless boy and his imaginary friend that proves in unexpected ways that friends matter, whether real or imaginary"--
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
362 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Living in harsh poverty during a brutal Idaho winter, Jack searches for the drug money that sent his father to prison in order to keep his brother out of foster care, while Ava, under the control of her merciless father, makes a wrenching choice to help the brothers survive.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Country music legend Dolly Parton's rural upbringing in the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee provides the backdrop for this special picture book. Using lyrics from her classic song "Coat of Many Colors," the book tells the story of a young girl in need of a warm winter coat. When her mother sews her a coat made of rags, the girl is mocked by classmates for being poor. But Parton's trademark positivity carries through to the end as the girl realizes that...
Author
Publisher
Spiegel & Grau
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxiii, 416 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The investigative journalist analyzes the emotionally galvanizing wealth gap in America and how it is transforming the meaning of rights, justice, and basic citizenship.
10) Make lemonade
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
1994, c1993
Physical Desc
200 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
In order to earn money for college, fourteen-year-old LaVaughn babysits for a teenage mother's children .
11) True believer
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
264 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Living in the inner city amidst guns and poverty, fifteen-year-old LaVaughn learns from old and new friends, and inspiring mentors, that life is what you make it--an occasion to rise to.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Enduring a hardscrabble existence as the children of alcoholic and absent parents, four siblings from a coastal Mississippi town prepare their meager stores for the arrival of Hurricane Katrina while struggling with such challenges as a teen pregnancy and a dying litter of prize pups.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Physical Desc
viii, 254 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Growing up gifted and poor in small-town Arkansas, Monica and Darci became fast friends. The girls bonded over a shared love of reading and learning, even as they navigated the challenges of their declining town and tumultuous family lives--broken marriages, alcohol abuse, and shuttered stores and factories. They pored over the giant map in their middle school classroom, tracing their fingers over the world that awaited them, vowing to escape. In...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Catherine Flowers grew up in Lowndes County, Alabama, a place that's been called "Bloody Lowndes" because of its violent, racist history. Once the epicenter of the voting rights struggle, today it's Ground Zero for a new movement that is Flowers's life's work. It's a fight to ensure human dignity through a right most Americans take for granted: basic sanitation. Too many people, especially the rural poor, lack an affordable means of disposing cleanly...
15) Free lunch
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"A distinctive new voice: Rex Ogle's story of starting middle school on the free lunch program is timely, heartbreaking, and true. 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. Grounded in the immediacy of physical hunger and the humiliation of having to announce it every day...
16) Clear: a novel
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
196 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"John, an impoverished Scottish minister, has accepted a job evicting the lone remaining occupant of an island north of Scotland--Ivar, who has been living alone for decades, with only the animals and the sea for company. Though his wife, Mary, has serious misgivings about the errand, he decides to go anyway, setting in motion a chain of events that neither he nor Mary could have predicted. Shortly after John reaches the island, he falls down a cliff...