Nonfiction Poverty
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I Will Always Write Back
- How One Letter Changed Two Lives
- By: Martin Ganda, Caitlin Alifirenka, Liz Welch
- Narrated by: Chukwudi Iwuji, Emily Bauer
- Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
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The New York Times best-selling true story of an all-American girl and a boy from Zimbabwe and the letter that changed both of their lives forever. It started as an assignment. Everyone in Caitlin's class wrote to an unknown student somewhere in a distant place. Martin was lucky to even receive a pen-pal letter. There were only 10 letters, and 50 kids in his class. But he was the top student, so he got the first one. That letter was the beginning of a correspondence that spanned six years and changed two lives.
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I Will Always Write Back
- How One Letter Changed Two Lives
- Narrated by: Chukwudi Iwuji, Emily Bauer
- Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 14-04-2015
- Language: English
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The New York Times best-selling true story of an all-American girl and a boy from Zimbabwe and the letter that changed both of their lives forever. It started as an assignment. Everyone in Caitlin's class wrote to an unknown student somewhere in a distant place....
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Bob
- No Ordinary Cat
- By: James Bowen
- Narrated by: Alistair McGowan
- Length: 3 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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A special audio edition for children age 11 and above. "We are all given second chances every day of our lives, but we don't usually take them. Then I met Bob." James Bowen was a homeless musician, busking on the streets of London to survive. But the moment he met an injured stray cat with ginger fur and big green eyes, his life began to change. Together James and Bob the cat faced the world - and won. A purrfectly true "tail" of love and friendship to make you smile!
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A warm uplifting book
- By Christy on 17-09-2024
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Bob
- No Ordinary Cat
- Narrated by: Alistair McGowan
- Length: 3 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 14-02-2013
- Language: English
- James Bowen was a homeless musician, busking on the streets of London to survive. But the moment he met an injured stray cat with ginger fur and big green eyes, his life began to change....
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Vagabonds
- Life on the Streets of Nineteenth-Century London
- By: Oskar Jensen
- Narrated by: Oskar Jensen
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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London, 1857: Two teenage girls holding a sign that says "Fugitive Slaves" ask for money on the corner of Blackman Street. After a constable accosts them and charges them with begging, they end up in court, where newspapers pick up their story. Are the girls truly escaped slaves from Kentucky? Or will the city's dystopian Mendicity Society catch them in a lie, exposing them as born-and-raised Londoners and endangering their safety? With its many accounts of people like these who lived and made their living on the streets, Vagabonds forms a moving picture of London's most compelling period.
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Vagabonds
- Life on the Streets of Nineteenth-Century London
- Narrated by: Oskar Jensen
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 28-05-2024
- Language: English
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Dickensian London is brought to real and vivid life in this innovative, accessible social history, revealing the true character of this place and time through the stories of its street denizens.
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Hope on the Horizon
- A Children's Handbook on Empathy, Kindness and Making a Better World
- By: Onjali Q. Raúf, Pippa Curnick - illustrator, Isobel Lundie - illustrator
- Narrated by: Onjali Q. Raúf
- Length: 3 hrs and 38 mins
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Growing up, there is so much out of our control and to feel frustrated about. But in this inspiring and practical handbook, bestselling children's author and Human Rights campaigner, Onjali Raúf, shares her top ten ways for finding hope, creating change and making a difference. With the help of her favourite fictional characters and some of the most inspiring people she has ever met, Onjali invites listeners to dive in and discover everything there is to know about kindness, empathy, friendship and fighting for the things that matter.
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Hope on the Horizon
- A Children's Handbook on Empathy, Kindness and Making a Better World
- Narrated by: Onjali Q. Raúf
- Length: 3 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 26-05-2022
- Language: English
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Growing up, there is so much out of our control and to feel frustrated about. But in this inspiring and practical handbook, bestselling children's author and Human Rights campaigner, Onjali Raúf, shares her top ten ways for finding hope, creating change and making a difference....
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Regulating the Poor
- The Functions of Public Welfare
- By: Cloward Fox Piven
- Narrated by: Karen Chilton
- Length: 14 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Piven and Cloward have updated their classic work on the history and function of welfare to cover the American welfare state's massive erosion during the Reagan, Bush, and Clinton years. The authors present a boldly comprehensive, brilliant new theory to explain the comparative underdevelopment of the US welfare state among advanced industrial nations. Their conceptual framework promises to shape the debate within current and future administrations as they attempt to rethink the welfare system and its role in American society.
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Regulating the Poor
- The Functions of Public Welfare
- Narrated by: Karen Chilton
- Length: 14 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 06-01-2021
- Language: English
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Piven and Cloward have updated their classic work on the history and function of welfare to cover the American welfare state's massive erosion during the Reagan, Bush, and Clinton years....
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On Our Street
- Our First Talk About Poverty (The World Around Us, Book 1)
- By: Jillian Roberts, Jaime Casap
- Narrated by: Dr. Jillian Roberts
- Length: 23 mins
- Unabridged
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A gentle introduction to the issue of poverty, On Our Street explores the realities of people living with inadequate resources. Using age-appropriate language, this book addresses mental illness, homelessness and refugee status as they are connected to this issue. Insightful quotes from individuals and organizations such as UNICEF are included throughout to add further perspective on the issue. An invaluable section on how kids can help empowers readers to take what they have learned and use it to make a difference.
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On Our Street
- Our First Talk About Poverty (The World Around Us, Book 1)
- Narrated by: Dr. Jillian Roberts
- Series: The World Around Us, Book 1
- Length: 23 mins
- Release date: 29-10-2024
- Language: English
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A gentle introduction to the issue of poverty, On Our Street explores the realities of people living with inadequate resources.
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It's Your World
- Get Informed, Get Inspired & Get Going!
- By: Chelsea Clinton
- Narrated by: Chelsea Clinton
- Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
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In It's Your World: Get Informed, Get Inspired & Get Going!, Chelsea Clinton tackles some of the biggest challenges facing our world today, especially for kids. Using data, charts and stories, she unpacks challenges related to poverty, climate change, gender equality, health, endangered species and more. She also talks about what's being done to make a difference in each area, particularly by kids and teenagers.
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It's Your World
- Get Informed, Get Inspired & Get Going!
- Narrated by: Chelsea Clinton
- Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 20-10-2016
- Language: English
- In It's Your World: Get Informed, Get Inspired & Get Going!, Chelsea Clinton tackles some of the biggest challenges facing our world today, especially for kids....
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Breaking Through
- By: Francisco Jiménez
- Narrated by: Adrian Vargas
- Length: 4 hrs and 37 mins
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At the age of 14, Francisco Jiménez, together with his older brother Roberto and his mother, are caught by la migra. Forced to leave their home, the entire family travels all night for 20 hours by bus, arriving at the U.S. and Mexican border in Nogales, Arizona. In the months and years that follow, Francisco, his mother and father, and his seven brothers and sister not only struggle to keep their family together, but also face crushing poverty, long hours of labor, and blatant prejudice.
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Breaking Through
- Narrated by: Adrian Vargas
- Length: 4 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 13-11-2009
- Language: English
- Without bitterness or sentimentality, Francisco Jiménez finishes telling the story of his youth....
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Reaching Out
- By: Francisco Jiménez
- Narrated by: Adrian Vargas
- Length: 5 hrs and 1 min
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From the perspective of the young adult he was then, Francisco Jiménez describes the challenges he faced in his efforts to continue his education. During his college years, the very family solidarity that allowed Francisco to survive as a child is tested. Not only must he leave his family behind when he goes to Santa Clara University, but while Francisco is there, his father abandons the family and returns to Mexico.
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Reaching Out
- Narrated by: Adrian Vargas
- Length: 5 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 11-11-2009
- Language: English
- From the perspective of the young adult he was then, Francisco Jiménez describes the challenges he faced in his efforts to continue his education.....
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A Different Pond
- By: Bao Phi
- Narrated by: Josh Fu
- Length: 6 mins
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As a young boy, Bao and his father awoke early, hours before his father's long workday began, to fish on the shores of a small pond in Minneapolis. Unlike many other anglers, Bao and his father fished for food, not recreation. A successful catch meant a fed family. Between hope-filled casts, Bao's father told him about a different pond in their homeland of Vietnam.
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A Different Pond
- Narrated by: Josh Fu
- Length: 6 mins
- Release date: 23-02-2023
- Language: English
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As a young boy, Bao and his father awoke early, hours before his father's long workday began, to fish on the shores of a small pond in Minneapolis....
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Immigrant Kids
- By: Russell Freedman
- Narrated by: Ellen Archer
- Length: 39 mins
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America meant "freedom" to the immigrants of the early 1900s - but a freedom very different from what they expected. Cities were crowded and jobs were scare. Children had to work selling newspapers, delivering goods, and laboring sweatshops. In this touching book, Newberry Medalist Russell Freedman offers a rare glimpse of what it meant to be a young newcomer to America.
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Immigrant Kids
- Narrated by: Ellen Archer
- Length: 39 mins
- Release date: 28-08-2018
- Language: English
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America meant "freedom" to the immigrants of the early 1900s - but a freedom very different from what they expected. Cities were crowded and jobs were scare. Children had to work selling newspapers, delivering goods, and laboring sweatshops....
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Crash
- By: Marc Favreau
- Narrated by: Oliver Wyman
- Length: 3 hrs and 9 mins
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Crash tells the story of the Great Depression, from the sweeping fallout of the market collapse to the more personal stories of those caught up in the aftermath. Packed with photographs, primary documents, and firsthand accounts, Crash shines a spotlight on pivotal moments and figures across ethnic, gender, racial, social, and geographic divides, reflecting many different experiences of one of the most turbulent decades in American history.
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Crash
- Narrated by: Oliver Wyman
- Length: 3 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 10-04-2018
- Language: English
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Crash tells the story of the Great Depression, from the sweeping fallout of the market collapse to the more personal stories of those caught up in the aftermath....
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If I Had a Hammer
- Stories of Building Homes and Hope with Habitat for Humanity
- By: David Rubel, Jimmy Carter - foreword
- Narrated by: Dan John Miller
- Length: 3 hrs and 10 mins
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For a quarter century in more than ninety countries, Habitat for Humanity has built homes with and for the people who are most in need of them, aided by more than a million volunteers - two of the most devoted of whom are former president Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn.
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If I Had a Hammer
- Stories of Building Homes and Hope with Habitat for Humanity
- Narrated by: Dan John Miller
- Length: 3 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 24-08-2010
- Language: English
- For a quarter century in more than ninety countries, Habitat for Humanity has built homes with and for the people who are most in need of them....
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Dear Librarian
- By: Lydia M. Sigwarth
- Narrated by: Lydia M. Sigwarth, Ira Glass
- Length: 12 mins
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When Lydia was five years old, she and her family had to leave their home. They hopped from Grandma's house to Aunt Linda's house to Cousin Alice's house, but no place was permanent. Then one day, everything changed: Lydia's mom took her to a new place - not a house but a big building with stone columns and tall tall steps. The library. In the library, Lydia found her special spot across from the sunny window at a round desk. For behind that desk was her new friend, the librarian.
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Dear Librarian
- Narrated by: Lydia M. Sigwarth, Ira Glass
- Length: 12 mins
- Release date: 10-06-2021
- Language: English
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When Lydia was five years old, she and her family had to leave their home. They hopped from Grandma's house to Aunt Linda's house to Cousin Alice's house, but no place was permanent....
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What Is Money?
- By: Etan Boritzer
- Narrated by: Julie Julin
- Length: 15 mins
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What Is Money? opens up discussion for children on issues of financial responsibility, both practical and ethical. Encouraging children to learn about and understand the true value of one of man's most intriguing inventions, What Is Money? is a way to examine the history of money, as well as the realistic applications and moral questions associated with its use.
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What Is Money?
- Narrated by: Julie Julin
- Length: 15 mins
- Release date: 05-03-2021
- Language: English
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What Is Money? opens up discussion for children on issues of financial responsibility, both practical and ethical. Encouraging children to learn about and understand the true value of one of man's most intriguing inventions, What Is Money? is a way to examine the history of money....
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The Beginning and End of the Great Depression
- US History Leading to Great Depression | Children's American History of 1900s
- By: Baby Professor
- Narrated by: Frank Block
- Length: 11 mins
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Was everyone in the US depressed during the Great Depression? This history book will tackle the beginning and end of Great Depression. It will contain information on the events that led to the economic slump and what the effects of such a slump were.
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The Beginning and End of the Great Depression
- US History Leading to Great Depression | Children's American History of 1900s
- Narrated by: Frank Block
- Series: Children's American History
- Length: 11 mins
- Release date: 02-07-2021
- Language: English
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Was everyone in the US depressed during the Great Depression? This history book will tackle the beginning and end of Great Depression. It will contain information on the events that led to the economic slump and what the effects of such a slump were....
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