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Themes: Adapted Classics, Low Level Classics, Samuel Clemens, Fiction, Tween, Teen, Young Adult, Chapter Book, Hi-Lo, Hi-Lo Books, Hi-Lo Solutions, High-Low Books, Hi-Low Books, ELL, EL, ESL, Struggling Learner, Struggling Reader, Special Education, SPED, Newcomers, Reading, Learning, Education, Educational, Educational Books. Timeless Classics-designed for the struggling reader and adapted to retain the integrity of the original classic. These classics...
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Nelson Books, an imprint of Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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Since 1997, Maggie Gobran and her organization Stephen's Children have been changing lives in Cairo's notorious zabala, or garbage slums. Her innovative, transformational work has garnered worldwide fame and multiple Nobel Prize nominations. This book chronicles Mama Maggie's surprising pilgrimage from privileged child to stylish business woman to college professor pondering God's call to change.
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English
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An unknown benefactor supplies an orphaned blacksmith's apprentice with the means to be educated in London as a gentleman of "great expectations. The orphan, Pip, and the convict, Magwitch, the beautiful Estella, and her guardian, the embittered and vengeful Miss Havisham, the ambitious lawyer, Mr. Jaggers -- all have a part to play in the mystery.
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
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English
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"By official count, more than one out of every six American children live beneath the poverty line. But statistics alone tell little of the story. In Invisible Americans, Jeff Madrick brings to light the often invisible reality and irreparable damage of child poverty in America. Keeping his focus on the children, he examines the roots of the problem, including the toothless remnants of our social welfare system, entrenched racism, and a government...
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levelFilm Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
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Follows three children, Katende Moses, Asiimwe Hadasah, and Kirimago Nina Margret, from the slums of Kampala, Uganda on a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to tour the world with the Grammy-nominated African Children's Choir, and ultimately secure their futures by raising funds to pay for their education.
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Avery, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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"The untold story of the root cause of America's education crisis--and the seemingly endless cycle of multigenerational poverty. It was only after years within the education reform movement that Natalie Wexler stumbled across a hidden explanation for our country's frustrating lack of progress when it comes to providing every child with a quality education. The problem wasn't one of the usual scapegoats: lazy teachers, shoddy facilities, lack of accountability....
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English
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"A classic novel, in which the man who calls himself the 'Bomb of Bombay' chronicles the story of a child and a nation that both came into existence in 194 -- and examines a whole people's capacity for carrying inherited myths and inventing new ones."--Publisher's description.
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Mad Creek Books, an imprint of The Ohio State University Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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"From internationally renowned Ilan Stavans, in collaboration with award-winning illustrator Santiago Cohen, comes Angelitos: A Graphic Novel, an explosive new graphic novel about a college student and his interactions with Padre Chinchachoma, a charismatic Catholic priest who devotes himself to rescuing homeless children in Mexico. Though his work gives hope to the desperate masses of children on the streets of Mexico City, his efforts interfere...
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Broadway Paperbacks
Pub. Date
[2012?]
Edition
First Broadway paperback edition.
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English
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Amazing Grace is a book about the hearts of children who grow up in the South Bronx - the poorest congressional district of our nation. Without rhetoric, but drawing extensively upon the words of children, parents, and priests, this book does not romanticize or soften the effects of violence and sickness. One fourth of the child-bearing women in the neighborhoods where these children live test positive for HIV. Pediatric AIDS, life-consuming fires,...
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Vintage Espa?ol
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
Primera edici?n.
Language
Español
Description
"Esta sorprendente memoria se convirti? cl?sico instant?neo cuando se public? por primera vez en Colombia en 2012, casi una d?cada despu?s de la muerte de su autora, quien fue alentada en sus escritos por Gabriel Garc?a M?rquez. Mediante veintitr?s cartas dirigidas a su amigo y confidente Germ?n Arciniegas a lo largo de treinta a?os, Reyes describe de manera viva y con detalles pintorescos el coraje notable y la imaginaci?n ilimitada de una ni?a que...
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Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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"A literary discovery: an extraordinary account, in the tradition of The House on Mango Street and Angela's Ashes, of a Colombian woman's harrowing childhood. This astonishing memoir of a childhood lived in extreme poverty in Latin America was hailed as an instant classic when first published in Colombia in 2012, nine years after the death of its author, who was encouraged in her writing by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Comprised of letters written over...
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Unnatural causes sounds the alarm about the extent of our glaring socio-economic and racial inequities in health and searches for their root causes. But those causes are not what we might expect. While we pour more and more money into drugs, dietary supplements and new medical technologies, Unnatural causes crisscrosses the country investigating the findings that are shaking up conventional understanding of what really makes us healthy or sick. This...
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