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"A history of the class system in America from the colonial era to the present illuminates the crucial legacy of the underprivileged white demographic, citing the pivotal contributions of lower-class white workers in wartime, social policy, and the rise of the Republican Party"--NoveList.
7) Free lunch
Author
Publisher
Norton Young Readers, an imprint of W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2019]
Lexile measure
HL 540L
Language
English
Description
A distinctive new voice: Rex Ogle's story of starting middle school on the free lunch program is timely, heartbreaking, and true. Free Lunch is the story of Rex Ogle's first semester in sixth grade. Rex and his baby brother often went hungry, wore secondhand clothes, and were short of school supplies, and Rex was on his school's free lunch program. Grounded in the immediacy of physical hunger and the humiliation of having to announce it every day...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company, Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
From the beet fields of North Dakota to the National Forest campgrounds of California to Amazon's CamperForce program in Texas, employers have discovered a new, low-cost labor pool, made up largely of transient older Americans. Finding that social security comes up short, often underwater on mortgages, these invisible casualties of the Great Recession have taken to the road by the tens of thousands in late-model RVs, travel trailers, and vans, forming...
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Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Seth Quinn returns from Europe a successful painter to settle down once again in the seaside town of St. Christopher, Maryland, and becomes interested in local florist Dru Whitcomb, but the course of true love does not run true when their pasts conspire to tear them apart.
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Maurice must beg for change in order to eat, but when Laura stops to help, they begin a years-long friendship that gives each a new perspective and hope. Includes a list of suggested acts of kindness.
Author
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Ran\dom House
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
A poor girl delights in her coat of many colors, made by her mother from rags, because despite the ridicule of the other children she knows the coat was made with love.
"Country music legend Dolly Parton's upbringing in rural Tennessee provides the backdrop for this charming tale of love in a time of need. With winter on the way and no money for new clothes, Mama stitches a coat for her little girl from a donated box of rags. And though her classmates...
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Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Willy Wonka offers five lucky winners a chance to tour his candy factory and a win a life-time supply of sweets. In the end the contest winners learn that imagination and sweetness of heart are more important than candy.
Join the expedition visiting legendary candy man Willy Wonka in a splendiferous movie that wondrously brings to the screen the endlessly appetizing delights of Roald Dahl's classic book. On a whirlwind tour of Willy's incredible,...
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