Child Poverty

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    • Poverty, Survival and Hope in New York City
    • By: Andrea Elliott
    • Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
    • Length: 21 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 27-01-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 57 ratings
    • Based on nearly a decade of reporting, Invisible Child follows eight dramatic years in the life of Dasani Coates, a child with an imagination as soaring as the skyscrapers near her Brooklyn homeless shelter....

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    • By: Cynthia Voigt
    • Narrated by: Barbara Caruso
    • Series: Tillerman Family, Book 1
    • Length: 13 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 25-10-08
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 30 ratings
    • 13-year-old Dicey Tillerman sits in the car at the shopping mall with her younger sister and two brothers. Momma had said, "You be good", but Momma never comes back....

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    • By: Michael Anderson, Michael Harbut
    • Narrated by: Able
    • Length: 3 mins
    • Release date: 08-03-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • Once upon a time, There was a family of four, the father, the mother, and two children, Jack and Alice. Jack is a boy, and Alice is a girl. Jack was 7 years old, and Alice was 5 years old.

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    • By: Jacqueline Wilson
    • Narrated by: Sophie Aldred
    • Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 05-02-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 159 ratings
    • Floss's parents are divorced, and she divides up her week, spending five days with her mum, her new step-dad and her baby half-brother....

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    • By: Jacqueline Wilson
    • Narrated by: Josie Lawrence
    • Length: 3 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 05-02-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 84 ratings
    • "I do my best to cheer my family up - but no one seems to laugh much any more. Not since we lost our lovely house and had to move into a bed and breakfast hotel....

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    • By: Onjali Q. Raúf
    • Narrated by: Ashton Frank
    • Length: 5 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 15-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 153 ratings
    • Told from the perspective of a bully, this book explores themes of homelessness, while celebrating kindness, friendship and the potential everyone has to change for the good....

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    • By: Simon Packham
    • Narrated by: Jonny Warr
    • Length: 4 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 27-10-22
    • Language: English
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    • Archie Ebbs has the perfect life. Good friends, a nice home and classmates who laugh at (nearly) all his jokes. But all that is about to change....

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    • By: Ann Braden
    • Narrated by: Amy Melissa Bentley
    • Length: 6 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 12-02-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Seventh-grader Zoey has her hands full as she takes care of her much younger siblings after school every day while her mom works her shift at the pizza parlor. Not that her mom seems to appreciate it. Zoey thinks how much easier everything would be if she were an octopus....

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    • By: K.A. Holt
    • Narrated by: Alex Kydd
    • Length: 4 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 12-02-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Timothy is on probation. It's a strange word - something that happens to other kids, to delinquents, not to kids like him. And yet, he is under house arrest for the next year....

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    • By: Delphine de Vigan
    • Narrated by: Serra Hirsch
    • Length: 4 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 22-03-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • Parisian teenager Lou has an IQ of 160, OCD tendencies, and a mother who has suffered from depression for years. But Lou is about to change her life....

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    • By: Gary Paulsen
    • Narrated by: Mark Hammer
    • Length: 2 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 23-10-13
    • Language: English
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    • An orphan in a Mexican border town meets an American army sergeant - and hopes the sergeant will help him cross the border to a better life in the United States....

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    • Modern Tale of Faerie, Book 2
    • By: Holly Black
    • Narrated by: Renee Raudman
    • Series: Modern Faerie Tales, Book 2
    • Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 01-01-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 34 ratings
    • Holly Black follows her breakout debut, Tithe, with a rich, harrowing, and thoroughly enjoyable parable of betrayal, abuse, friendship, and love....

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    • By: Onjali Q. Raúf
    • Narrated by: Theo Solomon
    • Length: 1 hr and 23 mins
    • Release date: 03-03-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Written with great empathy and Rauf's trademark humour, The Great (Food) Bank Heist is a moving story that gives a child's-eye view of the increasing problem of food poverty....

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    • By: Tom Percival
    • Narrated by: Benjamin Isaac
    • Length: 4 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 18-07-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Will has the wrong shoes – he's always known it but doesn't know how to change it. Navigating the difficulties of home and school when you feel you stick out is tough, but finding confidence with the help and empathy of friends can be all you need to see the way....

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    • By: Karina Yan Glaser
    • Narrated by: Robin Miles
    • Series: The Vanderbeekers, Book 4
    • Length: 5 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 15-09-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • When autumn arrives on 141st Street, the Vanderbeekers are busy helping Mr. Beiderman get ready for the New York City Marathon and making sure the mysterious person sleeping in the community garden gets enough to eat....

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