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2) Gloom town
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Language
English
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Twelve-year-old Rory and his friend Izzy try to foil the plans of Lord Foxglove, for whom Rory works as a valet, and his inhuman accomplices from taking over the world.--
4) Code red
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Language
English
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Description
Thirteen-year-old former elite gymnast Eden is feeling lost after a career-ending injury, but when she meets new friends who open her eyes to period poverty, the struggle that low-income people have trying to afford menstrual products, she becomes an advocate for fair treatment and rediscovers her passion and drive.
6) Those shoes
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Publisher
Candlewick Press
Language
English
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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.
7) Omar rising
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English
Description
"Omar must contend with being treated like a second-class citizen when he gets a scholarship to an elite boarding school"--
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English
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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...
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English
Description
After the ice cream stand where she works is robbed, seventeen-year-old Minerva Gutiérrez plans to get revenge on her predatory boss while navigating grief, anger, and dreams of escape from her dead-end hometown.
Minerva Gutiérrez absolutely hates her job at the local ice cream stand in the seaside town of Nautilus. Her sexist boss makes each day worse than the last. But she needs the money: kicked out of school and stranded by her mom's most recent...
10) The lucky ones
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"It's 1967, and eleven-year-old Ellis Earl Brown has big dreams. He's going to grow up to be a teacher or a lawyer--or maybe both--and live in a big brick house in town. There'll always be enough food in the icebox, and his mama won't have to run herself ragged looking for work as a maid in order to support Ellis Earl and his eight siblings and niece, Vera. So Ellis Earl applies himself at school, soaking up the lessons that Mr. Foster teaches his...
11) Sounder
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English
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Angry and humiliated when his sharecropper father is jailed for stealing food for his family, a young black boy grows in courage and understanding by learning to read and through his relationship with his devoted dog Sounder.
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
During the Great Depression six-year-old Marvel, her seven siblings, and their mother find a tar-paper shack in the woods and, over the course of a year, turn it into a home. Based on the author's grandmother's childhood; includes historical notes.
14) Cleaning up
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"Jess finds a secret diary and imagines what it would be like to be a girl who has everything. Will she become so wrapped up in someone else's life that she misses a chance to create her own? Jess cleans houses to save money for college, because her dad -- unemployed and off the wagon yet again -- has moved the two of them out of the city into a decrepit borrowed tent and trailer. Jess wavers between anger at her father and fear that poverty and addiction...
16) Very rich
Author
Publisher
Margaret Ferguson Books, Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Rupert, from a very large, very poor family, accidentally becomes part of an eccentric rich family's life beginning at Christmas, and soon sees that wealth is not everything.
17) The immortal boy
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Language
English
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"--
"Dos historias entrelazadas de Bogotá. Uno, una familia de cinco hijos, abandonados para vivir solos. La otra, una chica en un orfanato que hará cualquier cosa para hacerse amiga del misterioso Niño Inmortal"--
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
After her father's landscaping business fails and the family loses their house, sixth-grader Griselda Zaragoza follows her sister's example and begins selling Alma cosmetics while hiding her changed circumstances from friends.
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