Tennis triumph [Jake Maddox JV girls]by Maddox, Jake 

BTSB Prebound(Stone Arch, 2021)

BTSB #: 596313 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 4.1 MG Lexile: 600 F&P: R

Genres: Sports Multicultural

Subjects: Tennis - Fiction Poverty - Fiction Middle schools - Fiction School stories East Indian Americans - Fiction

Summary: Mira Ravi is the first-seed singles star on Hilltop Middle School's tennis team, but her life off the court is a much harder match to win as she juggles tough responsibilities at home, in school, and with her team.

Those shoes by Boelts, Maribeth 

Paperback(Candlewick Press, 2009)

BTSB #: 130064 Available

Dewey: EAges: 5-8   
AR: 3.1 LG RC: 3.2 K-2 Lexile: 550 AD F&P: L

Genres: Family Life

Subjects: Shoes - Fiction Grandmothers - Fiction Poverty - Fiction

Summary: Jeremy, who longs to have the black high tops that everyone seems to have, is excited when he sees them for sale in a thrift shop and buys them even though they are the wrong size.

Those shoes by Boelts, Maribeth 

BTSB Prebound(Candlewick Press, 2009)

BTSB #: 130068 In Bindery

Dewey: EAges: 5-8   
AR: 3.1 LG RC: 3.2 K-2 Lexile: 550 AD F&P: L

Genres: Family Life

Subjects: Shoes - Fiction Grandmothers - Fiction Poverty - Fiction

Summary: Jeremy, who longs to have the black high tops that everyone seems to have, is excited when he sees them for sale in a thrift shop and buys them even though they are the wrong size.

Thursday's child by Hartnett, Sonya 

Audio Book(Findaway World, LLC, 2009)

BTSB #: P00747 Available

Dewey: FAges: 13-18   


Genres:

Subjects: Poverty - Fiction Family life - Fiction Farm life - Fiction

Summary: A young woman, looking back on her childhood, recounts her farm family's poverty, her father's cowardice, and her younger brother's obsession for digging tunnels and living underground.

Trash by Mulligan, Andy 

Paperback(Ember, 2011)

BTSB #: 663578 Temp OS

Dewey: FAges: 14-18   
AR: 5.1 MG+RC: 5.5 6-8 Lexile: 850

Genres: Mystery Fiction

Subjects: Mystery fiction Poverty - Fiction Refuse and refuse disposal - Fiction Political corruption - Fiction

Summary: Fourteen-year-olds Raphael and Gardo team up with a younger boy, Rat, to figure out the mysteries surrounding a bag Raphael finds during their daily life of sorting through trash in a third-world country's dump.

Trash by Mulligan, Andy 

Audio Book(Findaway World, LLC, 2012)

BTSB #: P01805 Available

Dewey: FAges: 13-18   


Genres: Mystery Fiction

Subjects: Mystery fiction Poverty - Fiction

Summary: In an unnamed Third World country, in the not-so-distant future, three "dumpsite boys" make a living picking through the mountains of garbage on the outskirts of a large city. One unlucky-lucky day, Raphael finds something very special and very mysterious. So mysterious that he decides to keep it, even when the city police offer a handsome reward for its return.

Very rich by Horvath, Polly 

BTSB Prebound(Holiday House, 2018)

BTSB #: 464516 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 5.3 MG RC: 4.6 3-5 Lexile: 750

Genres: Supernatural Family Life

Subjects: Family life - Ohio - Fiction Eccentrics and eccentricities - Fiction Poverty - Fiction Wealth - Fiction Supernatural - Fiction Ohio - Fiction

Summary: Ten-year-old Rupert, from a very large, very poor family, accidently becomes part of an eccentric rich family's life beginning at Christmas, and soon sees that wealth is not everything.

What is given from the heart by McKissack, Pat 

BTSB Prebound(Schwartz & Wade Books, 2019)

BTSB #: 628442 Available

Dewey: EAges: 4-8   
AR: 3.6 LG Lexile: 660 AD

Genres: Family Life

Subjects: Christian life - Fiction Charity - Fiction Poverty - Fiction

Summary: Despite their own poverty since Daddy died, Mama tells nine-year-old James Otis they need to help Sarah, seven, whose family lost everything in a fire.