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The author reveals the daily humiliation of having to announce that he participated in his school's free lunch program all through sixth grade, drawing attention to his family's poverty. While constantly hungry, Ogle also recounts how much he craved the love of family in the face of his parents' abuse and brutality.

"Ryann Bird dreams of traveling across the stars. But a career in space isn't an option for a girl who lives in a trailer park on the 'wrong' side of town. So Ryann becomes her circumstances and settles for acting out and skipping school to hang out with her delinquent friends. One day she meets Alexandria: a furious loner who spurns Ryann's offer of friendship. After a horrific accident leaves Alexandria with a broken arm, the girls are brought together despite themselves--and Ryann learns her secret: Alexandria's mother is an astronaut who volunteered for a one-way trip to the edge of the solar system. Every night without fail, Alexandria waits to catch radio signals from her mother. And now it's up to Ryann to lift her onto the roof day after day until the silence between them grows into friendship, and eventually something more"--Provided by publisher.

Life in the Kibera slum outside Nairobi is difficult for ten-year-old Safiyah, who makes money by selling items from the garbage dump. However, the stack of glossy magazines she finds inspires her to create a mural on the side of her tin shack that brings hope to her and her grandmother, Cucu.

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

"They came on boats, on trains, great unceasing waves of them-the poor, the disenfranchised, the seekers, the dreamers. Second and third generations of farmers eking out an existence on scraps of farms divided up among too many sons. Political agitators no longer welcome in their homelands"--Provided by publisher.

Hayate Ayasaki's new career as a live-in butler for the rich Sanzenin family comes with more responsibilities than Hayate expected and may cost him his life.

Charles Dickens' classic tale of a miser who learns the true meaning of Christmas when he is visited by three ghosts on Christmas Eve.

Argues that the influences of the 1960s in helping the poor has adversely affected the people who were presumably being helped.

Collects Edith Wharton's "Ethan Frome," and "Summer," depicting a New England farmer who falls in love with his hypochondriac wife's cousin and the love affair between humble New England woman and an aristocratic man; and includes writings on the historical context of the work and critical essays.

Living in harsh poverty during a brutal Idaho winter, Jack searches for the drug money that sent his father to prison in order to keep his brother out of foster care, while Ava, under the control of her merciless father, makes a wrenching choice to help the brothers survive.