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"Miserly Ebenezer Scrooge is taught the true meaning of Christmas by a series of ghostly visitors in this illustrated chapter storybook for young readers"--OCLC.

Laura Schroff reflects on how she formed a friendship with an eleven-year-old, New York homeless boy named Maurice and how it changed both of their lives.

"Why does this land of plenty allow one in every eight of its children to go without basic necessities, permit scores of its citizens to live and die on the streets, and authorize its corporations to pay poverty wages? . . . Sociologist Matthew Desmond draws on history, research, and original reporting to show how affluent Americans knowingly and unknowingly keep poor people poor. . . . This book gives us new ways of thinking about a morally urgent problem. It also helps us imagine solutions"--Provided by publisher.

Timon of Athens is a bitterly intriguing study of a fabulously rich man who wastes his wealth on his friends, and, when he is finally impoverished, learns to despise humanity with a hatred that drives him to his grave.

Wanting to ask Haruhi out, Tamaki tries to plan the best first date ever, but even the help of the Host Club members may not be enough to save Tamaki from himself.

The Host Club members throw all they have into stopping Tamaki's father and grandmother's plans to shut down the Host Club and ship Haruhi abroad while Tamaki tries to deal with the power struggle in his family.

Hikaru asks Haruhi to go out, but he is willing to wait for her answer. At the same time, he tries to make be sure that Tamaki knows he is in love with Haruhi.

Twins Hikaru and Kaoru's fight over Haruhi leads them to take steps toward becoming more independent from each other, and Kyoya goes looking for Tamaki's mother in France.

Haruhi, a poor girl who is paying off her debt while working at a male club as a boy, tries to survive the sports festival at Ouran High School when the bonds of friendship are tested.

Haruhi, a scholarship student at the exclusive Ouran High School, accidentally breaks an expensive vase belonging to the all-male Host Club and is forced to work for them as a boy to repay her debt.