Argues that the Earth's potential to produce food has reached the point where it can no longer keep up with population increases, and offers suggestions for achieving a humane balance between food and people.
To help her poverty-stricken family, thirteen-year-old Lupita enters California as an illegal alien and starts to work while constantly on the watch for "la migra.".
The classic story about Jean Valjean, a peasant who is released from prison, where he spent nineteen years for stealing a loaf of bread for his starving family, only to find himself threatened by people and events from his past.
A novel about a Puerto Rican woman brought up in the South Bronx and her struggles to break the cycle of poverty and oppression which has plagued her family for generations.
A fisherman catches an oyster that contains a large, lustrous pearl. He becomes a rich man, forgets how to sing the fisherman's songs, and becomes melancholy.
Following her mother's separation from her alcoholic father in 1947, city-bred Maude must learn how to get along with her mother's relatives when they move to the mountains of northern Georgia.
Angry and humiliated when his sharecropper father is jailed for stealing food for his family, a young African-American boy grows in courage and understanding with the help of the devoted dog Sounder.
