poor children

Presents a short study of child labor situations around the world, and follows the experiences of thirteen-year-old Mehboob from India who has been working since age eight to help his family.

Describes one year in the life of children in the poorest congressional district in the United States, the South Bronx.

Explains what a settlement house is, describes its role in the lives of poor children who live near it, and tells how the settlement house movement is still being felt today.

Describes the many hardships America's children have had to endure from colonial times to the present.

An account of the former Pakistani child labor activist whose life and unexplained murder has brought to the attention of the world the evil of child bondage.

Describes one year in the life of children in the poorest congressional district in the United States, the South Bronx.

Young Prince Edward and Tom Canty, a pauper boy who looks just like the royal youth, both learn something about "pleasures and palaces" when they accidentally switch places in sixteenth-century England.

Discusses facts behind Mary Pope Osborne's "A Ghost Tale for Christmas Time," covering topics such as the Victorian lifestyle and the lives of children during the time of Charles Dickens.

A collection of two hundred letters which were written to Mrs. Roosevelt between 1933 and 1941 by children who were asking her to help them receive material assistance during the Great Depression.