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1) Sounder
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A young Negro boy learns the pain of humiliation and anger when his father is given an unjust jail sentence for stealing a ham from a white man. Learning to read and to discover that things do not die but become part of other things brings the youngster new hope.
2) Golden arm
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Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Lazarus Weathers, a high school senior from the wrong side of the tracks, seeks to protect his half-brother while pitching his way out of poverty, one strike at a time.
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English
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It's June's first day at Huey House, and as if losing her home weren't enough, she also can't bring her cherished viola inside. Before the accident last year, her dad saved tip money for a year to buy her viola, and she's not about to give it up now. Tyrell has been at Huey House for three years and gives June a glimpse of the good things about living there: friendship, hot meals, and a classical musician next door. Can he and June work together to...
5) Trash
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English
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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.
8) Gloom town
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Pub. Date
2020.
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.
Author
Pub. Date
2004.
Edition
First American edition.
Language
English
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.
12) The great Jeff
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Jeff's life spirals downward into homelessness after his alcoholic mother loses her job.
13) Those shoes
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English
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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.
15) Very rich
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Rupert, from a very large, very poor family, accidently becomes part of an eccentric rich family's life beginning at Christmas, and soon sees that wealth is not everything.
17) Lucky strikes
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Set in Depression Era Virginia, this is the story of orphaned Amelia and her struggle to keep her siblings together"--
18) The dollar kids
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
When a family buys a house in a struggling town for just one dollar, they are hoping to start over, but they may have traded one set of problems for another.
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