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Author
Publisher
Crown
Language
English
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"For nearly fifty years Jonathan has pricked the conscience of his readers by laying bare the savage inequalities inflicted upon children for no reason but the accident of being born to poverty within a wealthy nation. A winner of the National Book Award, the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, and countless other honors, he has persistently crossed the lines of class and race, first as a teacher, then as the author of tender and heart-breaking books about...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 35
Language
English
Description
One of the most revered works in English literature, Great Expectations traces the coming-of-age of a young orphan, Pip, from a boy of shallow aspirations into a man of maturity. From the chilling opening confrontation with an escaped convict to the grand but eerily disheveled estate of bitter old Miss Havisham, all is not what it seems in Dickens' dark tale of false illusions and thwarted desire. Raised by a humble blacksmith, Pip is recruited by...
Author
Series
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Three days before Christmas, in the freezing slums of London's East End, thirteen-year-old Gracie Phipps and eight-year-old Minnie Maude Mudway join together in a search for Charlie, the donkey who belonged to Minnie Maude's Uncle Alf. Gracie is shocked to learn that only the day before, someone brutally murdered Uncle Alf and made off with his rag-and-bones cart and the beloved beast who pulled it.
Author
Language
English
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Children's Classics: Abridged
Children's Classics: for Middle School Students
Children's Special Topics: Fiction with Lexile Over 1000
Children's Classics: for Middle School Students
Children's Special Topics: Fiction with Lexile Over 1000
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When young Edward VI of England and a poor boy who resembles him exchange places, each learns something about the other's very different station in life.
Author
Series
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Explains what a settlement house is, describes its role in the lives of poor children who live near it, and tells how the settlement house movement is still being felt today.
Author
Publisher
Avery
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"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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Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
Introduces readers to the lives of children in the orphanages, work houses, and wealthy homes of Victorian England, in a tribute that reveals some of the inspirations for Charles Dickens' classic works.
Author
Series
Segye munhak chŏnjip) volume 212-213
Publisher
Minŭmsa
Pub. Date
2009
Language
Korean
Description
A young man in 1820s London who expects to be reared by a rich patron and to marry a wealthy young woman finds his hopes dashed.
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Español
Description
"Esta sorprendente memoria se convirtió clásico instantáneo cuando se publicó por primera vez en Colombia en 2012, casi una década después de la muerte de su autora, quien fue alentada en sus escritos por Gabriel García Márquez. Mediante veintitrés cartas dirigidas a su amigo y confidente Germán Arciniegas a lo largo de treinta años, Reyes describe de manera viva y con detalles pintorescos el coraje notable y la imaginación ilimitada de...
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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
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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