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Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
304 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"After an abusive, neglected childhood spent on welfare and in and out of homelessness in Alaska, raised by a mother who believed she was the reincarnation of the Virgin Mary, Carrot Quinn moved out on her own. She found a sense of belonging with a bunch of straight-edge anarchists who taught her how to traverse the country by freight trains, sleep in fields under the stars, and find her food by foraging in dumpsters. Her new life was one of thrilling...
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Series
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
48 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents a description of a young boy's , Hamilton, life growing up on the steets of a shantytown in Brazil, including information on how he begged for food and shelter, slept on sidewalks, witnessed the effects of illegal drugs, and survived violence and poverty to live with his mother.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
310 pages, 16 pages of plates : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
After watching a news bulletin about war-torn Bosnia-Herzegovina, Magnus MacFarland-Barrow and his brother agreed to take a week's hiatus from work to help. Neither of them expected it to be a life-changing experience, but what began as a one-time road trip in a beaten-up Land Rover grew to become Magnus' life's work - he left his job, sold his house and directed all of his efforts to feeding thousands of the world's poorest children. Magnus retells...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
xi, 302 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Everybody was rooting for Jonathan Conyers after seeing his profile on Humans of New York went viral and sparked millions in donations to the Brooklyn Debate League. The kid who went from struggling to read to being a breakout star on his high school debate team, thanks to a life-changing friendship with his transgender debate coach, captured the heart of America. Jonathan's story highlights the important role teachers play in opening up worlds of...
Author
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"This heartfelt story tells the true but unlikely tale of a young woman working in the city and a young boy in desperate need of friendship and guidance. In the short time after they meet, Laura realizes Maurice has never celebrated Christmas, so she opens her heart and her home and sets out to show him how wondrous the holiday is. What she finds through his glowing eyes is that the meaning of the holiday is truly about giving, not getting, as they...
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Language
English
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"'Standing on the stage, I felt exposed and like an intruder. In these professional settings, my personal experiences with hunger, poverty, and episodic homelessness, often go undetected. I had worked hard to learn the rules and disguise my beginning in life ... ' So begins C. Nicole Mason's powerful memoir, a story of reconciliation, constrained choices and life on the other side of the tracks. Born in the 1970s in Los Angeles, California, Mason...
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
198 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"On one rainy afternoon, on a crowded New York City street corner, eleven-year-old Maurice met Laura. Maurice asked Laura for spare change because he was hungry, and something made Laura stop and ask Maurice if she could take him to lunch."--Amazon.com.
34) Uncensored: my life and uncomfortable conversations at the intersection of black and white America
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
x, 257 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"As the president of the student group Uncomfortable Learning at Williams College, Zachary Wood knows all about intellectual controversy. From John Derbyshire to Charles Murray, there's no one Zach refuses to debate or engage with simply because he disagrees with their beliefs--sometimes vehemently so--and this controversial view has given him a unique platform on college campuses and in the media. But Zach has never shared the details of his own...
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