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Shares the story of Piper, a girl who just moved into a homeless shelter in a new city, and Baby, a dog who lives in the park with his person, but when Baby loses his person it is up to Piper to make sure Baby is not taken away for good.

Deza Malone, the smartest girl in her class in Gary, Indiana, accompanies her mother and older brother on a trip to find her father, an African American man who left to find work after the Great Depression hit. They end up in a Hooverville outside of Flint, Michigan, and her brother attempts to be a performer while Deza and her mother search for a home.

Three city siblings, now living on a farm during the Great Depression, must survive on their own when their father takes a construction job miles away.

Based on a true story, tells of how a poor Ghanaian boy buys a chicken through a community loan program, which eventually helps lift him, his mother, and his community out of poverty.

In 1573, the crippled, scorned, and destitute Meggy Swann goes to London, where she meets her father, an impoverished alchemist, and eventually discovers that although her legs are bent and weak, she has many other strengths.

From age six through her high school valedictory speech, believing she and her mother are wizards helps young Echo cope with poverty, hunger, her mother's drug abuse, and much more.

Jeremy, who longs to have the black high tops that everyone at school seems to have but his grandmother cannot afford, is excited when he sees them for sale in a thrift shop and decides to buy them even though they're the wrong size.

"Adrian Simcox brags about owning a horse, and Chloe just knows he's making stuff up...until she learns an important lesson in empathy"--

Growing up in the inner-city projects, DeShawn is reluctantly forced into the gang world by circumstances beyond his control.

Thirteen-year-old Jeff's life spirals downward into homelessness after his alcoholic mother loses her job.