Books About Poverty & Economic Hardship
Stories about financial struggles, homelessness, and economic inequality — building empathy and understanding.
193 books
Brazil
Anthony Swift
Skit-Scat Raggedy Cat
Sean Qualls
The Two Friends
Anita M. Sawyers
Why Is the Third World So Poor?/Phamplet (Opposing Viewpoints Pamphlets)
GREENHAVEN PR
The Storm in the Barn
Unknown
A little princess
Cathy East Dubowski
Lulu and the Hunger Monster
Erik Talkin
Mary McLeod Bethune
Susan Evento
Promo/little princess
Deborah Hautzig
Dust Bowl
Susanne Bushman
Great Depression
Veronica B. Wilkins
Marmee's surprise
Monica Kulling
A baseline study on psychosocial support of orphans and vulnerable children in two villages in Botswana
G.N. Tsheko, K. Bainame
Armando and the Blue Tarp School
Edith Hope Fine
Exploitation of Children (Global Issues)
Judith Gnnew
Promoting literacy in at-risk youth
Sharon L. Query
Till the Train Runs Out of Track
Ray Bennese
Why Does Poverty Disproportionately Affect Minorities? (Opposing Viewpoints Pamphlets)
Cengage Gale
Little Big Girl
Unknown
Drylongso
Virginia Hamilton
The Man Who Walked the Earth
Ian Wallace
Un sillón para mi mamá
Vera B. Williams
A child's garden
Michael Foreman
The little match girl
Christine San José
Kids during the industrial revolution
Lisa A. Wroble
Serafina's promise
Ann E. Burg
The Dirty Thirties, (American History Through Primary Sources)
Sean Price
The promise quilt
Candice F. Ransom
What is given from the heart
Patricia C. McKissack
Surviving the Dust Bowl
Joann Cleland
Little Audrey
Ruth White
Hunger
Donna Jo Napoli
Little Miss Strange
Joanna Rose
Edward the Crazy Man
Marie Day
Ghetto cowboy
Greg Neri
Kids during the Great Depression
Lisa A. Wroble
Little Dog Moon
Maxine Trottier
Waiting Place
Dina Nayeri
Zoli's Legacy
Dawn L. Watkins
Children of the Civil War
Candice F. Ransom
Life in the Dust Bowl
Sally Senzell Isaacs
Money hungry
Sharon G. Flake
On the Game (Sidestreets)
Monique Polak
Rosa Takes a Chance
Susan Martins Miller
A Christmas Star
Linda Oatman High
Children of the dust days
Karen Mueller Coombs
The cats in Krasinski Square
Karen Hesse
Martín de Porres
Gary D. Schmidt
A Moment for Dreams
J. M. Smith
Across the sea from Galway
Leonard Everett Fisher
American Girls Collection Kit, 1934
Valerie Tripp
Charlie Young Bear
Katherine Von Ahnen
Child survival under threat
Dominic E. Azuh
Deserts (Extreme Environments)
Charles F. Gritzner
Down to Earth Sociology (Down to Earth Sociology)
Henslin
Front Desk
Kelly Yang
Innocenti Social Monitor 2004
UNICEF. Innocenti Research Centre, MONEE Project
Ireland
Edward Lengel
Oprah Winfrey (DK Biography)
Helen S. Garson
Poor Mallory
Ann M. Martin
Promoting Literacy At-Ris
Sharon L. Query
The Clay Marble
Minfong Ho
The Diary of Ma Yan
Ma Yan
The Homeless
Christopher Jencks
The Millennium Generation
Robin Laurance
Think About Poverty in the U.S.
Daniel W. Woods, John B. Williamson
Vicki
Marianna Dengler
When the sky rained dust
Patrick Dearen
Willie Horton
Grant J. Eldridge
A letter to Mrs. Roosevelt
C. Coco De Young
Black Sunday Dust Blizzard
Bruce Berglund
Flicker
H. E. Edgmon
Hurdles in the Dark
Elvira K. Gonzalez
Leaving Glorytown
Eduardo F. Calcines
The little match girl
Jerry Pinkney
Family Picture
Dean Hughes
I Survived the Dust Bowl, 1935 (I Survived #25)
Lauren Tarshis
Rose's journal
Marissa Moss
She Thief
Daniel Finn
The Desperate Search (An American Adventure, Book 2)
Lee Roddy
How I found the Strong
Margaret McMullan
MARTians
Blythe Woolston
Winter of peril
Jan Andrews
A "Kestrel for a Knave"
Barry Hines
A little princess
Tania Zamorsky
Family Homelessness Pack
Children's Society, The
Knockabeg
Mary E. Lyons
Long Journey Home - Audio
Richard J. Delaney
Lost girl found
Leah Bassoff
My lost and found life
Melodie Bowsher
Rags and riches
Mary Pope Osborne
The Circuit
Jean Osborn
A little princess
Eliza Gatewood Warren
Highland mercies
Gary E. Parker
Kiss the dust
Elizabeth Laird
Mary McLeod Bethune
Sandra Donovan
The Great American Dust Bowl
Don Brown
The Killing Sea
Richard Lewis
Finding her way
Anne G. Faigen
Got a penny?
David R. Collins
Loretta Little Looks Back
Andrea Davis Pinkney
The Lord of Opium
Unknown
Blood Years
Elana K. Arnold
El Largo Invierno / The Long Winter
Laura Ingalls Wilder
In my father's house
Brock Thoene
Treasures in the dust
Tracey Porter
Trueno
William H. Armstrong
Unforgettable Catastrophes
Unknown
Vanderbeekers Lost and Found
Karina Yan Glaser
Dorothea Lange
Carole Boston Weatherford
Little Match Girl Strikes Back
Emma Carroll
Dejados atrás
Tim F. LaHaye
Illegal immigrants
Gail Stewart
Sick Soil
Kevin Blake
The education of Little Tree
Forrest Carter
What Was the Great Depression?
Janet B. Pascal, Who HQ
Aquellos Anos Dorados
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Cat running
Zilpha Keatley Snyder
Saint Julie Billiart The Smiling Saint
Mary Kathleen Glavich, Snd Glavich
These is My Words
Nancy Turner
Dewey
Vicki Myron
Mary McLeod Bethune
Amy Robin Jones
Primary Source History of the Dust Bowl
Rebecca Langston-George
The journal of C.J. Jackson
William Durbin
A Little Tiger in the Chinese Night
Song Nan Zhang
Deadly Mine
Kevin Blake
Feed the Children First
Mary E. Lyons
Oprah Winfrey
Tamra B. Orr
The sin eater
Gary D. Schmidt
Los Primeros Cuatro Anos/the First Four Years (Little House Books)
Laura Ingalls Wilder
A little princess
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Disabled children & developing countries
Pam Zinkin, Helen McConachie
Dragonwings
Laurence Yep
Families Without Fathers
David Popenoe
Kendrick Lamar: Platinum Rap Artist
Heather E. Schwartz
Little Princess, A
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Malnourished children of the rural poor
Judith Balderston
Orphans and destitute children in the late Ottoman Empire
Nazan Maksudyan
The Lost Prince (Puffin Classics)
Frances Hodgson Burnett
The human rights of street and working children
Iain Byrne
¿Qué fue la Gran Depresión?
Janet B. Pascal
Avoiding hunger and finding water
Andrew Langley
Hello, I'm Johnny Cash
G. Neri
Little Princes
Conor Grennan
Stones For My Father
Trilby Kent
Voices of the dust bowl
Sherry Garland
Survival in the Storm The Dust Bowl Diary of Grace Edwards Dalhart, Texas 1935
Unknown
Louis Armstrong
Wendie C. Old
I Beat the Odds: From Homelessness, to the Blindsind and beyond
Michael Oher, Don Yaeger
Watch me rise
Douglas E. Luffborough
Little Bighorn, June 25, 1876
Brendan January
A daughter of the tenements.
Edward Waterman Townsend
Hardball
Daniel Coyle
Securing the Future
Sheldon Danziger, Jane Waldfogel
The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck
The Traitor: Golden Mountain Chronicles
Laurence Yep
The graves are walking
John Kelly
Work-Family Challenges for Low-Income Parents and Their Children
Ann C. Crouter
Mother Teresa
Haydn Middleton
El Gran Gatsby
Francis Scott Fitzgerald
Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Dust to eat
Michael L. Cooper
Refugee Crisis
Michael E. Goodman
Years of dust
Albert Marrin
Children of the Great Depression
Russell Freedman
The Road
Cormac McCarthy
The life and times of Mother Theresa
Tanya Rice
Dust bowl girls
Lydia Reeder
The Dust Bowl
Sue Vander Hook
Immigration and Refugees
Heather C. Hudak
Egg and Spoon
Gregory Maguire
Outcasts United
Warren St. John
Parable of the Sower
Octavia E. Butler
The bag
Sol Yurick
Teen fathers
Lang, Paul
The Dust Bowl through the lens
Martin W. Sandler
The Way People Live - Life During the Dust Bowl (The Way People Live)
Diane Yancey
The dust bowl and the Depression in American history
Debra McArthur
The Importance of Mother Teresa
Rafael Tilton
America's great disasters
Martin W. Sandler
Climate migrants
Rebecca E. Hirsch
Hurricane force
Joseph B. Treaster
Life under the Taliban
Gail Stewart
Homeless or hopeless?
Margery G. Nichelason
The way things never were
Norman H. Finkelstein
Diminishing resources.
James G. Workman
The Arab-Israeli conflict
Ivan Minnis
Little Nell
The 1930s
Petra Press
Hurricane Katrina
Debra A. Miller
Somalia
Salome Nnoromele
Great Medical Discoveries - Tuberculosis (Great Medical Discoveries)
Gail Stewart
The Great Society
Craig E. Blohm