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1) Those shoes
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Jeremy, who longs to have the black high tops that everyone at school seems to have but his grandmother cannot afford, is excited when he sees them for sale in a thrift shop and decides to buy them even though they are the wrong size.
Author
Publisher
Lee & Low Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Armando and his father are trash-pickers in Tijuana, Mexico, but when Senor David brings his "school"--a blue tarp set down near the garbage dump--to their neighborhood, Armando's father decides that he must attend classes and learn. Based on a true story.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 3
Description
During the Great Depression, while their father is away looking for work, eight-year-old Patrick and thirteen-year-old Roy create a machine to help their mother make ends meet, even as she is helping tramps.
5) Runner
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Living with his alcoholic father on a broken-down sailboat on Puget Sound has been hard on seventeen-year-old Chance Taylor, but when his love of running leads to a high-paying job, he quickly learns that the money is not worth the risk.
Author
Publisher
Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023].
Description
During the coldest season, when the world feels scary -- what do you remember about being warm? Baked potatoes. Trust. A kettle on the stove. Blankets. A smile. And, most of all, the reassurance that you belong. In his powerful and moving poem, featuring illustrations from thirteen extraordinary artists, bestselling author and UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Neil Gaiman draws together many different memories to answer the question, 'what do you need to...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Description
When her grandmother reveals that the daughter that she had given up for adoption is coming from America to visit her Vietnamese family, nine-year-old Binh is convinced that her newly-discovered aunt is wealthy and will take care of all the family's needs.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Description
When her father is injured, fourteen-year-old Nazia is pulled away from school, her friends, and her preparations for an arranged marriage, to help her mother clean houses in a wealthy part of Karachi, Pakistan, where she finally rebels against the destiny that is planned for her.
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Description
With love and determination befitting the "world's greatest family," twelve-year-old Deza Malone, her older brother Jimmie, and their parents endure tough times in Gary, Indiana, and later Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression.
10) Gentle's Holler
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Description
In the early 1960s, twelve-year-old songwriter Livy Two Weems dreams of seeing the world beyond the Maggie Valley, North Carolina, holler where she lives in poverty with her parents and eight brothers and sisters, but understands that she must put family first.
Author
Publisher
Wednesday Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
When sixteen-year-old Georgia Avis finds the dead body of thirteen-year-old Ashley James outside the gates of an exclusive resort, she teams up with Ashley's older sister Nora to find the killer. She is thrown into a world of unimaginable wealth and privilege-- and the fight for her life. As Ashley's killer closes in, it may not be a matter of who is guilty, but who is guiltiest. -- adapted from jacket
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
Description
In Amsterdam in the mid-1600s, Cornelia's life as the illegitimate child of renowned painter Rembrandt is marked by plague, poverty, and despair at ever earning her father's love, until she sees hope for a better future in the eyes of a weathy suitor.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 16
Description
In Victorian England, poverty-stricken, orphaned siblings Joe and Annie escape from the abusive farmer they work for and try to survive in Manchester, with help from a friendly tramp, a mysterious dog-woman, and a renegade printer who supports the rights of the poor.
15) Private Peaceful
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Description
When Thomas Peaceful's older brother is forced to join the British Army, Thomas decides to sign up as well, although he is only fourteen years old, to prove himself to his country, his family, his childhood love, Molly, and himself.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury U.S.A. Children's Books
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 14
Description
In 1940s Chicago, fifteen-year-old Ruby hopes to escape poverty by becoming a taxi dancer in a nightclub, but the work has unforeseen dangers and hiding the truth from her family and friends becomes increasingly difficult.
17) And then, boom!
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
Poverty-stricken Joseph bravely rides out all the storms life keeps throwing at him.
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