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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.

A pair of running shoes from a friend help Sophy fulfill her dream to attend school and learn to read and write.

Frome, a lonely, poverty-stricken, nineteenth-century New England farmer, has long and faithfully cared for his bitter, invalid wife, but when his wife's distant young cousin comes to take over as housekeeper, she and Frome succumb to forbidden passion with tragic results.

Fourteen-year-old LaVaughn, trying to earn the money for college, takes a job caring for the two children of Jolly, a single teenage mom, and must find the courage to make the right decision for all of them after Jolly is fired.

Explores the relationship between academic achievement and low socioeconomic status, arguing that chronic exposure to poverty causes negative physical changes to the brain, and identifying key factors that can help students achieve emotionally, socially, and academically.

Takes a cognitive approach to class and generational poverty; examines and names the experiences of living in poverty, middle class, and wealth; identifies myths about poverty and wealth; details findings about interventions, resources, and causes of poverty, and emphasizes the thinking, communication, and learning patterns involved in breaking out of poverty, with case studies, resources, and more.

When Astro, a spunky slum kid, changes places with his planet's playboy prince, he sees the chance to end the chaos that is tearing his planet, Industria, apart. As Prince Barrage, Astro will use an all-powerful magical spear, the Orgue, to battle aliens, while being trained to fight by his guardian knight, Tiamat.

The author recalls her life growing up in a dysfunctional family with an alcohol father and distant mother and describes how she and her siblings had to fend for themselves until they finally found the resources and will to leave home.

Photographs and text document the experiences of five individuals who came to live in the Lower East Side of New York City as children or young adults from Belarus, Italy, Lithuania, and Romania at the turn of the twentieth century.

Text and photographs tell the story of a homeless family that has been referred to the Henry Street Settlement Urban Family Center on New York City's Lower East Side.