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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 18
Lexile measure
HL 760L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Memphis, Tennessee, 1936. The five Foss children find their lives changed forever when their parents leave them alone on the family shantyboat one stormy night. Rill Foss, just twelve years old, must protect her four younger siblings as they are wrenched from their home on the Mississippi and thrown into the care of the infamous Georgia Tann, director of the Tennessee Children's Home Society. South Carolina, Present Day. Avery Stafford has lived...
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
In this film inspired by true events, successful author/illustrator Samantha Crawford is living a charmed life, until her husband is murdered. Sam plunges into despair and loses her faith and will to live. A death-defying encounter with two children leads to a reunion with Joe, her childhood friend. As Sam watches "Papa" Joe care for and love the kids in his under-resourced neighborhood, she begins to realize that the love of God is always reaching...
Author
Publisher
Price Stern Sloan
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"The Scrawny Little Tree" tells of a destitute little boy who has always wanted a Christmas tree. He finally saves enough to buy a little tree all his own. But the boy's love for his first Christmas tree is not affected by its scrawny stature.
6) Teaching with poverty in mind: what being poor does to kids' brains and what schools can do about it
Author
Publisher
ASCD
Language
English
Formats
Description
Covers why and how the effects of poverty have to be addressed in classroom teaching and school and district policy. Topics include what poverty does to children's brains and why students raised in poverty are especially subject to stressors that undermine school behavior and performance.
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"In Fostering Resilience and Well-being in Children and Families in Poverty, Dr. Valerie Maholmes sheds light on the mechanisms and processes that enable children and families to manage and overcome adversity"--
"The number of children living in families with incomes below the federal poverty level increased by 33 percent between 2000 and 2009, resulting in over 15 million children living in poverty. Some of these children are able to overcome this...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
After her farm for widows and orphans is devastated by fire in 1884, Christina Willems is determined to reopen it despite opposition. She finds an unlikely ally in local lumber mill owner Levi Johnson. Having been hurt by people in the past, Levi prefers solitude. But young Tommy Kilgore, one of Christina's residents, worms his way into Levi's affections. When Tommy and Christina are threatened, will Levi reach out and find healing from the scars...
Series
Children's well being indicators and research volume Volume 10
Publisher
Springer
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 38
Lexile measure
1120L
Language
English
Description
The life of a man born at the moment of India's independence becomes inextricably linked to that of his nation and is a whirlwind of disasters and triumphs that mirror modern India's course.
The author of The Satanic Verses creates a fascinating family saga about the birth and maturity of a land and its people--a brilliant incarnation of the human comedy. "Rushdie has achieved a magnificent and unique work of fiction".--The Philadelphia Inquirer....
19) American children in chronic poverty: complex risks, benefit-cost analyses, and untangling the knot
Author
Publisher
Lexington
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English