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Despite serious obstacles and setbacks, fourteen-year-old Keisha pursues her dream of becoming an Olympic swimmer and medical doctor.

The influential story of the Joad family amidst the Great Depression, illuminating their journey from disparaging Oklahoma to the deceptively promising fields of California.

Even though they were poor, the people of Chelm were content with their lives until the Council of Sages made them aware of their problems.

A study of women, poverty, and life in Cairo, as told through the words of Umm Ali, a member of the lower class who lives with her husband and eight children in a poor neighborhood, enduring a lack of money, little space, and often violence, with hope, dignity, and self-respect.

Traces the history of Habitat for Humanity, an organization which has built nearly fifty thousand houses in partnership with low-income families, in forty-eight countries and twelve hundred communities in the United States in the past twenty years.

Presents fourteen firsthand accounts of life in Chile under the regime of General Augusto Pinochet in the 1970s and early 1980s.