Poverty Fiction

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    • By: Charles Dickens
    • Narrated by: Alex Jennings
    • Length: 34 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 05-05-09
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 755 ratings
    • One of Dickens' early works, Nicholas Nickleby combines comedy and tragedy in a tale of triumph over adversity....

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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 31 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: James Allen
    • Narrated by: Sean Pratt
    • Length: 3 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 20-07-11
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • Although written at the turn of the century its themes are still current....

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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: 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: 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 86 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: 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: Marie Lu
    • Narrated by: Mariel Stern, Steven Kaplan
    • Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 29-11-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 68 ratings
    • What was once the Western United States is now home to the Republic, a nation perpetually at war with its neighbors. Born into an elite family in one of the Republic's wealthiest districts, 15-year-old June is a prodigy being groomed for success in the Republic's highest military circles....

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    • By: Henry Mayhew
    • Narrated by: David Timson
    • Length: 27 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 30-08-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 44 ratings
    • London Labour and the London Poor is a rare and fascinating insight into the lives and struggles of the 19th-century poor. Written by journalist and reformer Henry Mayhew, it collects hundreds of testimonials from the lower strata of Victorian society....

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    • By: John Green
    • Narrated by: Dan John Miller
    • Length: 8 hrs
    • Release date: 24-09-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 84 ratings
    • When Margo Roth Spiegelman beckons Quentin Jacobsen in the middle of the night - dressed like a ninja and plotting an ingenious campaign of revenge - he follows her. After a lifetime of loving Margo from afar, things are finally looking up for Q - until day breaks and she has vanished....

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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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    • The Smiler Trilogy, Book 1
    • By: Victor Canning
    • Narrated by: John Higgins
    • Series: The Smiler Trilogy, Book 1
    • Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 11-11-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • On a night of wild storms, two troubled figures escape from captivity. One is a 15-year-old boy, Samuel Miles, a.k.a. "Smiler", wrongly convicted of theft and sent to a young offenders institution. The other is a cheetah, Yarra, a restless resident of Longleat Wildlife Park....

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    • A Novel
    • By: Meg Elison
    • Narrated by: Jesse Vilinsky
    • Length: 6 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 01-09-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Underprivileged and keenly self-aware, SoCal fourteen-year-old Layla Bailey isn't used to being noticed. Except by mean girls who tweet about her ragged appearance. All she wants to do is indulge in her love of science....

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    • By: Louisa May Alcott
    • Narrated by: Rebecca Burns
    • Series: Little Women, Book 1
    • Length: 17 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 07-07-06
    • Language: English
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    • Little Women is the story of a wife and her four daughters living in genteel poverty in the environs of Boston while the father is away as a chaplain in the Union Army during the Civil War....

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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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    • By: Bryony Gordon
    • Narrated by: Rachel Petladwala
    • Length: 6 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 15-09-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • Introducing the YA fiction debut from bestselling author and journalist Bryony Gordon in a modern twist on Rapunzel and one girl's quest to find a different sort of happy ever after....

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