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3) Runner
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
Formats
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
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
307 p. ; 22 cm.
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.
Author
Series
Caged warrior volume 1
Pub. Date
2015, c2014
Physical Desc
[228] p. ; 21 cm.
Description
From age three, McCutcheon Daniels, now sixteen, has been trained in Mixed Martial Arts and must keep winning to feed his five-year-old sister and father, but chance presents an opportunity to get out of the Detroit slums using his brain instead of his fighting skills.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
266 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Description
"Eleven-year-old Fern helps to take care of her impoverished family by foraging for food in the forest, but when a fracking company rolls into town, she realizes that her peaceful woods and her family's livelihood could be threatened"--
8) Trash
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
215 p. ; 23 cm.
Description
Fourteen-year-olds Raphael and Gardo team up with a younger boy, Rat, to figure out the mysteries surrounding a bag Raphael finds during their daily life of sorting through trash in a third-world country's dump.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 x 28 cm.
Description
During the Great Depression, seven-year-old Ruby's family leaves their Oklahoma home to seek work in California, where Ruby meets Dorothea Lange, who takes a photograph that becomes known as "Migrant mother." Includes historical note.
Author
Pub. Date
2020
Physical Desc
273 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
"Most teens daydream about things they don't have and places they've never been. But seventeen-year-old Sweet Potato Jones doesn't have the luxury of such indulgences. For the past ten years, she's been focused on raising her three younger siblings. Sweet Potato never wanted anything for herself. Just a roof over their heads, someplace safe to live, food, and clothing. She never dared dream of anything more. The family finally catches a break when...
12) Dragonfly Eyes
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 15
Physical Desc
375 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
Ah Mei has always been close to her French grandmother, Nainai, and is proud to look like her. But in their home city of Shanghai, many people are suspicious of their European heritage and looks. Politics and war make 1960s Shanghai a difficult place to grow up, especially when the family silk business is given over to the government and they are left with their beloved home and little else. Ah Mei and her grandmother suffer, but they are resourceful...
13) I am Kavi
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
219 pages ; 22 cm
Description
It's 1998 in Colombo, and the Sri Lankan Civil War is raging... but Kavi is frightened of something even worse than war. Her scholarship to an elite school was everything she wanted, but nothing is going according to plan, and she's terrified that everyone will find out who she really is. As she tries to fit in with her new wealthy and self-assured classmates, Kavi finds herself covering up her real life--a poor village girl with a mother who's chosen...
Author
Pub. Date
c1988
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
[32] p. : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
Description
Ruthie and her mother wonder how they will fulfill their obligation of getting the perfect Christmas tree to the town for the holiday celebration, since Papa has left the Appalachian area to go to war.
16) The immortal boy
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
147, 145 pages ; 21 cm
Description
"Two intertwining stories of Bogotá. One, a family of five children, left to live on their own. The other, a girl in an orphanage who will do anything to befriend the mysterious Immortal Boy"--
"Este libro narra dos historias de Bogotá. La de cinco hermanos colombianos que enfrentan la orfandad y la miseria con valentía. Y la de una niña huérfana que hará cualquier cosa para conocer al misterioso chico inmortal. El momento en que sus vidas...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
31 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm.
Description
"Picu's family is very poor. In the dry foothills, her mother must feed fourteen people--her kids, her relatives' kids, and the hired hand's kids--every day. One morning Picu, the youngest sister, is sent to get a marrow bone from a faraway neighbor. The bone will add flavor, and nutrition, to the lunchtime soup for all the hungry mouths. Her mother warns her not to dawdle on the two-hour walk, each way, through the wild landscape. But Picu can't...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
viii, 227 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Description
"Based on true events. Sang Ly lives at Cambodia's city dump and is grateful she can help earn a living for her family by sifting through the trash for recyclables and things which can be repaired and sold. On a good day, she can earn enough to buy food for her family. She needs enough good days so she can pay the rent collector, Sopeap--a grumpy old woman who shows no mercy and who is willing to evict any tenant who can't pay their rent on time....
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