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Author
Publisher
Greenleaf
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
Second edition.
Description
Abused by an alcoholic, unemployed father, Doug Wallace and his seven siblings barely survived childhood--fleeing in the night from landlords, scrambling for food, and burning down the only home they ever owned to collect insurance money. In this raw testimony of a heart-breaking, hardscrabble childhood, Doug Wallace paints an unforgettable portrait of a child determined to free himself from the cycle of poverty that strangled his family for generations....
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Description
In the poverty of the Appalachian coal country in 1908, eight-year-old Minna's life gets even more difficult after her father dies of black lung, and that winter she cannot go to school because she does not have a coat--until the quilting mothers make her a coat using pieces of cloth from their own lives, each with a special story behind it.
44) Eb & Flow
Author
Publisher
Crown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Description
"Ebony and De’Kari (aka Flow) do not get along. How could they when their cafeteria scuffle ended with De’Kari’s ruined shoes, Ebony on the ground, and both of them with ten days of at-home suspension? Now Eb and Flow have two weeks to think about and explain their behavior—to their families, to each other, and ultimately to themselves. Award-winning author Kelly J. Baptist delivers a novel in verse that follows Eb and Flow as they navigate...
48) The river Niger
Publisher
Alpha Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Description
"In this gripping, intimate look at life in the ghetto, Johnny Williams is a house panter that moonlights as a poet, struggling to financially and emotionally support his cancer-ridden wife Mattie. But times are tough and the poverty-troubled streets are even tougher, and it takes every ounce of Johnny's love and courage for the couple to make it through their strife, finding redemption."
Author
Publisher
Perennial Classics
Pub. Date
1998.
Edition
First Perennial Classics edition
Appears on list
Description
A profoundly moving novel, and an honest and true one. It cuts right to the heart of life ... If you miss A Tree Grows in Brooklyn you will deny yourself a rich experience ... It is a poignant and deeply understanding story of childhood and family relationships. The Nolans lived in the Williamsburg slums of Brooklyn from 1902 until 1919 ... Their daughter Francie and their son Neely knew more than their fair share of the privations and sufferings...
Author
Publisher
Tin House
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First US Edition.
Appears on list
Description
"At fifty-one years old, twins Jeanie and Julius still live with their mother, Dot, in rural isolation in the English countryside. The cottage they have shared their entire lives is their only protection against the modernizing world around them. Inside its walls, they make music, and in its garden, they grow everything they need to survive. To an outsider, it looks like poverty; to them, it is home. But when Dot dies unexpectedly, the world they've...
Publisher
First Look Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Description
Debbie Laramie is a preacher. Debbie and her son, Hayden, are sent from a big city church to the small town of Paradise, where Debbie finds a community in desperate need of direction and a town that has turned its back on its neediest neighbors. She tries to build a new vision for her congregation that embraces everyone, even the poor and outcast.
52) Chasing secrets
Publisher
Direct Source Special Products
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
Suffering through years of psychological and physical abuse under the ruthless watch of a cruel patriarch, young Jo Ann Foley did not think she would ever escape her grandfather's horrifying cycle of violence and torment. But a chance meeting leads to a friendship with the elderly Black couple who live behind her. They provide Jo Ann with the stable family environment she needs, giving her the courage and hope to fight for her redemption and begin...
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
Widescreen.
Description
Pelé. A name known around the world, a sports legend who changed soccer forever, and a national hero who carried the hopes and dreams of a country on his back. But before he was an icon, he was a kid from the slums of Sao Paulo, Brazil, so poor that he couldn't afford a real soccer ball.
Series
Criterion collection volume 374
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Restored, digitally transferred version.
Description
In postwar, poverty-stricken Rome, a man, hoping to support his desperate family with a new job, loses his bicycle and main means of transportation to work. With his wide-eyed young son in tow, he sets off to track down the thief.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
The classic Dickens story about a bitter old man who's given a chance for redemption when three ghosts come to visit him on Christmas Eve. Bonus features include: Introduction by Leonard Maltin, Dead to Begin With documentary, Scrooge By Another Name featurette, The Human Blarney Stone documentary, A Scholar's View video narrative, collection of early silent Dickens films, commentary tracks, and more!
Publisher
British Broadcasting Corp
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Description
When low-born, country girl Tess Durbeyfield is driven by family poverty to claim kinship with the wealthy D'Urbervilles, a series of tragedies befalls her as she comes under the influence of the manipulative Alec D'Urberville.
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