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The husband-and-wife authors describe meeting and falling in love in the slums of Kenya where their organization, Shining Hope for Communities (SHOFCO), has created the first tuition-free school for girls and provided health care, clean water, and economic empowerment programs.

"With latest data and research, scholars study what lessons can be drawn from earlier efforts to help NCLB achieve its goals. Authors show that standards-based reform has had some positive effects and some of the critics' greatest fears have not been realized. Recommendations offered for implementation of impending reauthorized NCLB"--Provided by publisher.

An illustrated version of the Dolly Parton song about a poor girl who delights in her coat of many colors, made by her mother from rags, because despite the ridicule of the other children she knows the coat was made with love.

Follows the childhood of the civil rights leader to his imprisonment at age twenty, where he found the faith that would lead him to his path towards activism and justice.

Taken in by a poor family in a rural village after the death of her father, Sunflower bonds with the family's only child, Bronze, who has not spoken since being traumatized by a terrible fire.

"Close as brothers, Jakub's and Lincoln's lives diverge when Jakub gets a private school scholarship and Lincoln is lured into a gang"--OCLC.

A miser learns the true meaning of Christmas when three ghostly visitors review his past and foretell his future.

Hector never expected to attract a hot girl like Jacleen. She was beautiful, for sure. But Jacleen was all lipstick and processed hair. She liked Hector for one thing, his shiny black Lexus. He'd do anything to keep the borrowed car. Marley appreciated Hector's car too. But only because it got her across D.C. in half the time. She had bigger worries. Like how to help her mom find a job. How to put food on the table. How not to be evicted.

As a child, Emma Malloy left isolated Coal River, Pennsylvania, vowing never to return. Now, orphaned and penniless at nineteen, she accepts a train ticket from her aunt and uncle and travels back to the rough-hewn community. Treated like a servant by her relatives, Emma works for free in the company store. There, miners and their impoverished families must pay inflated prices for food, clothing, and tools while those who owe money are turned away to starve. Though Emma's actions draw ire from the mine owner and police captain, they lead to an alliance with a charismatic miner who offers to help her expose the truth. And as the lines blur between what is legal and what is just, Emma must risk everything to follow her conscience.

Harry Barck, Hoboken, New Jersey's poormaster, died under suspicious circumstances on February 25, 1938. A poormaster decided who would receive public aid. The prosecution asserted that Harry Barck was killed by an unemployed mason named Joe Scutellaro. The mason said Harry's death was an accident. The defense attorneys said the poormaster's death was a symbol of larger social ills. In the end, the issues examined in the trial---massive unemployment, endemic poverty, and the inadequacy of public assistance---brought national attention to the plight of ten million unemployed Americans living in desperate circumstances. These issues remain in the headlines today.