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No place to be: voices of homeless children -- by Judith Berck (Author) (Book)
"Grade 5 Up-- The foreword of this volume puts forth a strong indictment of the society that allows so many of its youngsters to be without a secure place to call home. The body of the book further...
All Ages
Age groups: School Age (6-12)
Discrimination, Harassment, and the Failure of Diversity Training: What to Do Now -- by Hellen Hemphill, Ray Haines (Authors) (Book)
"Diversity training failed because of its focus on the awareness, understanding and appreciation of differences rather than teaching basic skills to help employees relate more effectively with each...
All Ages
Age groups: Adulthood (22+)
Not Safe at Home: How America's Housing Crisis Threatens the Health of Its Children -- by Joshua Sharfstein, Megan Sandel (Authors) (Book)
"These author/doctors provide care for the numerous ailments of homeless children as they wind their way through the shelter system & wait too long for safer, subsidized housing. This report developed...
All Ages
Age groups: Adulthood (22+)
Urban Poverty and the Underclass: A Reader -- by Enzo Mingione (Author) (Book)
"Over the last two decades 'poverty' has moved centrestage as an issue within the social sciences. This volume, edited by one of Europe's foremost sociologists, aims to assess the debates surrounding...
All Ages
Age groups: Adulthood (22+)
Sounder -- by William Armstrong (Author) (Book - Child)
"A landmark in children's literature, winner of the 1970 Newbery Medal, and the basis of an acclaimed film, Sounder traces the keen sorrow and the abiding faith of a poor African-American boy in the...
All Ages
Age groups: School Age (6-12)
Moving up and out: Poverty, Education,and the Single Parent Family -- by Lori Holyfield (Author) (Book)
"Focusing on single women with children in poverty and the obstacles they encounter in trying to change their lives and class position." Publisher (barnesandnoble.com)
All Ages
Age groups: Adulthood (22+)
Poor Support: Poverty in the United States -- by David Ellwood (Author) (Book)
"A prominent Harvard economist and one of the country's leading experts on welfare policy offers a major reinterpretation of the various forms that poverty takes in American families and what can be...
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Age groups: Adulthood (22+)
Stitches -- by Glen Huser (Author) (Book - Child)
Product Description "Travis lives in a trailer park outside a small prairie town with his aunt, uncle, and a pack of rowdy little cousins. His mother, a country-and-western singer, is on the road a...
Ages 9 years - 12 years.
Native Son -- by Richard Wright (Author) (Book)
"Right from the start, Bigger Thomas had been headed for jail. It could have been for assault or petty larceny: by chance, it was for murder and rape. Native Son tells the story of this young black...
All Ages
Age groups: Adolescence (13-21), Adulthood (22+)
In the Shadow of the White House: Drugs, Death, and Redemption on the Streets of the Nation's Capital -- by Mike Tidwell (Author) (Book)
Mike Tidwell's story of counseling homeless drug addicts begins with the startling contrast of the pomp and circumstance of the President's inaugural ceremonies to the desperate poverty in the...
All Ages
Age groups: Adulthood (22+)