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Poverty Bibliography
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Armstrong, William Howard. Sounder. New York: Harper & Row, [1969].
Angry and humiliated when his sharecropper father is jailed for stealing food for his family, a young black boy grows in courage and understanding by learning to read and with the help of the devoted dog Sounder.
J Del
Delton, Judy. Kitty in the summer. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, [1980].
Kitty's summer in the country is filled with new experiences, from "purchasing" a pagan baby to exposure to real poverty.
J Col
Collier, James Lincoln. When the stars begin to fall. New York: Delacorte Press, [1986].
Angry and frustrated that his entire family is considered to be poor trash, fourteen-year-old Harry defies his father and attempts to prove that a factory is polluting their small Adirondack community.
J Hur
Hurmence, Belinda. Tough Tiffany. 1st ed. Garden City, N.Y: Doubleday, [1980].
Eleven-year-old Tiffany, youngest member of a poor family in rural North Carolina, takes her first steps toward adulthood.
362.5 Mel
Meltzer, Milton. Poverty in America. New York: Morrow, [1986].
Examines the nature of poverty in America, its effects on children, women, the elderly, and racial minorities, and past and present efforts to fight it.
363.8 Fin
Fine, John Christopher. The hunger road. 1st ed. New York: Atheneum, [1988].
Discusses world starvation, its escalation because of poverty and inequities in distributing a limited food supply, and past and present efforts to alleviate the problem.
P 362.58 Kem
Kempf, Stephanie. Finding solutions to hunger : kids can make a difference :a sourcebook for middle and upper school teachers. New York, NY: World Hunger Year, [1997].
796.357 Jac
Rothaus, James R. Bo Jackson. [Mankato, Minn.]: Child's World, [1991].
A biography of the man who overcame a childhood of poverty to become one of the great stars of professional baseball and football.
779 Lan
Partridge, Elizabeth. Restless spirit : the life and work of Dorothea Lange. New York, N.Y., U.S.A: Viking, [1998].
A biography of Dorothea Lange, whose photographs of migrant workers, Japanese American internees, and rural poverty helped bring about important social reforms.
614.4 Gar
Garrett, Laurie. The coming plague : newly emerging diseases in a world out of balance. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [1994].
F Bea
Beatty, Patricia. Lupita Manana. 1st Beech Tree ed. New York: Beech Tree Books, [1992].
To help her poverty-stricken family, 13-year-old Lupita enters California as an illegal alien and starts to work while constantly on the watch for "la migra.".
362.5 Pov
Egendorf, Laura K. Poverty : opposing viewpoints. San Diego, Calif: Greenhaven Press, [1999].
362.5 Har
Harrington, Michael. The other America : poverty in the United States. 1st Touchstone ed. New York: Simon & Schuster, [1997].
J How
Howard, Ellen. The gate in the wall. 1st ed. New York: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, [1999].
In nineteenth-century England, ten-year-old Emma, accustomed to long working hours at the silk mill and the poverty and hunger of her sister's house, finds her life completely changed when she inadvertently gets a job on a canal boat carrying cargoes between several northern towns.
J Par
Park, Frances and Zhang, Christopher Zhong-Yuan. The royal bee. 1st ed. Honesdale, Pa: Boyds Mill Press, [2000].
A poor boy from Korea is determined to win a spelling bee, even though poverty keeps him from formally attending school.
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Wolff, Virginia Euwer. True believer. 1st ed. New York: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, [2001].
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.
Ahmanson Library
August 2001