poverty

Fifteen-year-old Georgia learns a great deal about herself and her troubled best friend Riley when they become part of a group of suburban Pennsylvania teenagers that go to Anapra, a squatters village in the border town of Juarez, Mexico, to undertake a community construction project.

Provides a comprehensive examination of the extent, causes, effects, and costs of American poverty nearly a decade after passage of the welfare reform with policies.

A little boy in a war-ravaged country is separated by a wire fence from the streams and hills he used to visit with his father, but he finds hope when he begins to nurture a green shoot found growing in the rubble.

Satchel O'Rye, devoted son of an impoverished couple in a dying rural town, must weigh in balance the life of his most cherished dog and the freedom of a rare striped tiger.

A novel narrated by a nameless nine-year-old who sees herself as the outsider in her own family. The physical setting is a remote corner of New Brunswick while the emotional setting is the strife and struggle of poverty--in all its guises, a place laid open by a child's clear and unjudgmental account of one year's tribulation inside its farmhouses, graveyards, churches, its one-room school and its charity old folks' home.

Presents opposing viewpoints on various aspects of poverty, including its causes, ways to end it, the welfare system, the homeless, and the relationship between poverty and discrimination.

A series of 16 debates about current issues related to rich and poor individuals and nations.