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Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City
Andrea Elliott
4.70 average rating, · 20.1k ratings
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Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty
Abhijit V. Banerjee
4.27 average rating, · 25k ratings
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There are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America
Alex Kotlowitz
4.30 average rating, · 16.3k ratings
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The Benefits of Being an Octopus
Ann Braden
4.21 average rating, · 16.6k ratings
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Free Lunch
Rex Ogle
4.36 average rating, · 11.5k ratings
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Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty
Muhammad Yunus
4.12 average rating, · 10.5k ratings
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The Life You Can Save: How to Do Your Part to End World Poverty
Peter Singer
4.15 average rating, · 7k ratings
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Poverty Safari
Darren McGarvey
4.01 average rating, · 6.7k ratings
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Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation
Jonathan Kozol
4.26 average rating, · 5.6k ratings
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The Working Poor: Invisible in America
David K. Shipler
4.04 average rating, · 5.8k ratings
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Those Shoes
Maribeth Boelts
4.45 average rating, · 4.1k ratings
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Fly Away Home
Eve Bunting
4.29 average rating, · 3.8k ratings
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Begging for Change
Sharon G. Flake
4.23 average rating, · 2.8k ratings
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Skint Estate: A Memoir of Poverty, Motherhood and Survival
Cash Carraway
4.14 average rating, · 2.6k ratings
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Home in the Woods
Eliza Wheeler
4.58 average rating, · 2.2k ratings
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Ada's Violin: The Story of the Recycled Orchestra of Paraguay
Susan Hood
4.38 average rating, · 2.2k ratings
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Maddi's Fridge
Lois Brandt
4.53 average rating, · 2k ratings
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The Rag Coat
Lauren A. Mills
4.36 average rating, · 1.8k ratings
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Fire in the Ashes: Twenty-Five Years Among the Poorest Children in America
Jonathan Kozol
4.10 average rating, · 1.9k ratings
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Coat of Many Colors
Dolly Parton
4.35 average rating, · 1.6k ratings
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The Locust Effect: Why the End of Poverty Requires the End of Violence
Gary A. Haugen
4.32 average rating, · 1.5k ratings
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The Most Beautiful Thing
Kao Kalia Yang
4.27 average rating, · 1.5k ratings
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Rachel and Her Children: Homeless Families in America
Jonathan Kozol
4.23 average rating, · 1.5k ratings
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Good Morning, Hope: A True Story of Refugee Twin Sisters and Their Triumph over War, Poverty, and Heartbreak
Argita Zalli
4.55 average rating, · 1.3k ratings
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