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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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Profiles everyday life in the settlement of Annawadi as experienced by a Muslim teen, an ambitious rural mother, and a young scrap metal thief, illuminating how their efforts to build better lives are challenged by religious, caste, and economic tensions.
2) Crenshaw
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Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
When Jackson and his family face living in their minivan, Jackson's imaginary cat Crenshaw returns to help him.
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Language
English
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John Harmon returns to England as his father's heir. Believed drowned under suspicious circumstances--a situation convenient to his wish for anonymity--John evaluates Bella Wilfer whom he must marry to secure his inheritance. The story is filled with colorful Victorian characters and incidents -- the faded aristocrats and parvenus gathered at the Veneering's dinner table, Betty Higden and her terror of the workhouse and the greedy plottings of Silas...
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English
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"A history of the class system in America from the colonial era to the present illuminates the crucial legacy of the underprivileged white demographic, citing the pivotal contributions of lower-class white workers in wartime, social policy, and the rise of the Republican Party,"--NoveList.
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Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Publisher's description: During Sarah Smarsh's turbulent childhood in Kansas in the 1980s and 1990s, the country's changing economic policies solidified her family's place among the working poor. By telling the story of her life and the lives of the people she loves, Smarsh challenges us to examine the class divide in our country and the myths about people thought to be less because they earn less. Her personal history affirms the corrosive impact...
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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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
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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The child of an alcoholic father and an eccentric artist mother discusses her family's nomadic upbringing, during which she and her siblings fended for themselves while their parents outmaneuvered bill collectors and the authorities.
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Pub. Date
2021
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Publisher Annotation: To understand the truth, you have to start at the beginning. Winter in Idaho. The sky is dark. It is cold enough to crack bones. Living in harsh poverty, Jack Dahl is holding his breath. He and his younger brother have nothing?except each other. And now Jack faces a stark choice: lose his brother to foster care or find the drug money that sent his father to prison. He chooses the money. Ava Bardem lives in isolation, a life of...
14) Free lunch
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Series
Memoir (Rex Ogle) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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"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...
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"In Profit and Punishment, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist exposes the tragedy of modern-day debtors prisons, and how they destroy the lives of poor Americans swept up in a system designed to penalize the most impoverished. "His Pulitzer Prize winningseries on debtors' prisons in Missouri made a serious difference in real people's lives and his book will be a must read for a nation seeking a bipartisan path forward on criminal justice reform."...
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2020
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
The Pulitzer Prize-winning authors of the acclaimed, best-selling Half the Sky now issue a plea—deeply personal and told through the lives of real Americans—to address the crisis in working-class America, while focusing on solutions to mend a half century of governmental failure.
With stark poignancy and political dispassion, Tightrope draws us deep into an "other America." The authors tell this story,...
With stark poignancy and political dispassion, Tightrope draws us deep into an "other America." The authors tell this story,...
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English
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Anne Perry’s Victorian Christmas novels have attracted as many faithful readers as her two New York Times bestselling series featuring investigators Thomas Pitt and William Monk. A Christmas Promise is the seventh in Perry’s holiday series, and it will surely bring joy to this special season.
Three days before Christmas, in the freezing slums of London’s East End, thirteen-year-old Gracie Phipps encounters Minnie...
Three days before Christmas, in the freezing slums of London’s East End, thirteen-year-old Gracie Phipps encounters Minnie...
18) Chesapeake blue
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Series
Chesapeake Bay saga volume 4
Language
English
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In the long-awaited conclusion to her breathtaking Chesapeake Bay saga, Nora Roberts returns to Maryland's Eastern Shore and her beloved Quinn family. Seth Quinn, now a grown man returning from Europe as a successful painter, is settling down there amid all the blessed chaos of the extended Quinn clan. A lot has changed in St. Christopher since Seth left. The most intriguing is the presence of Dru Banks, a wealthy city girl who's opened a florist...
Author
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
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"Matt Taibbi's genius is in untangling complex stories and making us care about them by providing striking moral clarity and a genuine sense of outrage. He has become among the most read journalists in America, leading the dialogue with epic Rolling Stone pieces that offer an "almost startling reminder of the power of good writing" (Washington Post). In this new work, he once again takes readers into the biggest, most urgent story in America: a widening...
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Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Three of the nation's top scholars, known for tackling key mysteries about poverty in America, turn their attention from the country's poorest people to its poorest places. Based on a fresh, data-driven approach, they discover that America's most disadvantaged communities are not the big cities that get the most notice. Instead, nearly all are rural. Little if any attention has been paid to these places or to the people who make their lives there....
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