Inside Game/Outside Game: Winning Strategies for Saving Urban America -- by David Rusk (Author) (Book)
"For the past three decades, the federal government has targeted the poorest areas of American cities with a succession of antipoverty initiatives, yet these urban neighborhoods continue to decline....
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Age groups: Adulthood (22+)
Grapes of Wrath -- by John Steinbeck (Author) (Book)
"Although it follows the movement of thousands of men and women and the transformation of an entire nation, The Grapes of Wrath is also the story of one Oklahoma farm family, the Joads, who are driven...
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Age groups: School Age (6-12), Adolescence (13-21), Adulthood (22+)
Little Match Girl -- by Hans Andersen (Author) (Book)
"This modern adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's classic tale presents the heartwarming story of Adriana and her grandmother, who travel to a new world in the hopes of finding a better life. But...
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Age groups: Preschool/Kindergarten (3-5), School Age (6-12)
The Persistence of Poverty in the United States -- by Garth Mangum, Andrew Sum, Stephen Magnum, Sar Levitan (Authors) (Book)
"For more than thirty years, students, scholars, and policymakers have relied on successive editions of Sar A. Levitan's Programs in Aid of the Poor. Now, in conjunction with the eighth edition of...
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Age groups: Adulthood (22+)
Coolies -- by unknown Yin (Author) (Book - Child)
Product Description "Shek marvels at the new world as he and his brother, Little Wong, arrive in California. Along with hundreds of other workers, the brothers are going to build a great railroad...
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Age groups: School Age (6-12), Adolescence (13-21)
Children's Defense Fund (Organization - Private, Non-Profit)
"Nobel Prize-winning author Albert Camus, speaking at a Dominican Monastery in 1948 said, "Perhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world in which children are tortured. But we can reduce the...
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Street Kingdom: Five Years inside the Franklin Avenue Posse -- by Douglas Century (Author) (Book)
"The world is the blacktop turf of the once all-powerful Franklin Avenue Posse's "hardrocks," stickup kids, gunrunners, and coke dealers. In this explosive odyssey through Brooklyn's ravaged...
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Age groups: Adulthood (22+)
Health Issues for Minority Adolescents -- by Marjorie Kagawa-Singer, Judith Vanderryn, Phyllis Katz (Authors) (Book)
Adolescents are an underserved group in terms of health care. Poor and minority youth are particularly shortchanged in our current system. In view of the high incidence of many medical and...
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Age groups: Adulthood (22+)
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...
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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...
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Age groups: Adulthood (22+)