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Tyrell

Fifteen-year-old Tyrell, who is living in a Bronx homeless shelter with his spaced-out mother and his younger brother, tries to avoid temptation so he does not end up in jail like his father.

African Americans, Bronx (New York, N.Y.), fiction, Homeless persons, Poor

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Iggy Corso, who lives in city public housing, is caught physically and spiritually between good and bad when he is kicked out of high school, goes searching for his missing mother, and causes his frie

Conduct of life, Drug abuse, Family problems, fiction, Poor

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Shutting Out the Sky

Deborah Hopkinson

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 th

History, Immigrants, New York, New York (N.Y.), Poor

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The Glass Castle

Jeannette Walls

The author recalls her life growing up in a dysfunctional family with an alcohol father and distant mother and describes how she and her siblings had to fend for themselves until they finally found th

Biography, Case studies, Children of alcoholics, Family relationships, Homeless persons

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WALLS

Poverty

This anthology includes personal narratives of poor people struggling to survive on little or no income and writings that convey the thoughts and deeds of people trying to alleviate the plight of the

Homelessness, Poor, United States, Working class

362.5
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Make Lemonade

Virginia Euwer Wolff

Fourteen-year-old LaVaughn, trying to earn the money for college, takes a job caring for the two children of Jolly, a single teenage mom, and must find the courage to make the right decision for all o

Babysitters, Conduct of life, fiction, Poor, Single-parent family

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Mountains Beyond Mountains

Tracy Kidder

Presents the life of the American physician and medical educator, Paul Farmer, who dedicated his life to serving the poor of Haiti and Peru and challenging world health policies.

1959-, Biography, Farmer, Paul, Human rights, Medical care

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Farmer

Make Lemonade

Virginia Euwer Wolff

In order to earn money for college, fourteen-year-old LaVaughn babysits for a teenage mother.

Babysitters, Conduct of life, fiction, Poor, Single-parent families

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True Believer

Virginia Euwer Wolff

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.

Conduct of life, fiction, Friendship, Poor, Single-parent families

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The Prince and the Pauper

Mark Twain

When young Edward VI of England and a poor boy who resembles him exchange places, each learns something about the other's very different station in life.

1537-1553, Boys, Edward, England, fiction

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