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1) Burn
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Language
English
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Description
Sarah's family hires a dragon to work on their farm, a last resort for poor families, but when she notices her dragon acting erratically, she uncovers a prophecy linking her to a deadly assassin, a dragon-worshipping cult and two FBI agents.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Living in harsh poverty during a brutal Idaho winter, Jack searches for the drug money that sent his father to prison in order to keep his brother out of foster care, while Ava, under the control of her merciless father, makes a wrenching choice to help the brothers survive.
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"As the new year approaches, best friends Ronny, whose family is in financial trouble, and Josefina, who has a big audition at a prestigious music academy, must learn how to depend on one another and their community when things get tough"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
After Ivy is forced to move to "the wrong side of the tracks" due to economic hard times, she discovers that not everything-or everyone-is what they seem, even herself. Fans of Jenny Han and Sarah Dessen will love this funny, poignant, and relatable story. When Ivy Emerson's family loses their house-complete with her beloved piano-the fear of what's to come seizes her like a bad case of stage fright. Forced to give up her allowance, her cell phone,...
10) Season one
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Reggie is one of the worst players on the Badgers, the worst basketball team in the league, in spite of his to improve his skills and the efforts of the new--and possibly magical--coach, Rolabi Wizenard, as things always seem to go wrong on unexplainable ways when he is at the gym for practices.
11) Running shoes
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
Sophy, a determined young girl living in an impoverished Cambodian village, fulfills her dream of going to school--with the help of a pair of running shoes.
13) True believer
Author
Pub. Date
2001.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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Description
Living in the inner city amidst guns and poverty, fifteen-year-old LaVaughn learns from old and new friends, and inspiring mentors, that life is what you make it--an occasion to rise to.
17) Little Audrey
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
In 1948, eleven-year-old Audrey lives with her father, mother, and three younger sisters in Jewell Valley, a coal mining camp in Southwest Virginia, where her mother still mourns the death of a baby, her father goes on drinking binges on paydays, and Audrey tries to recover from the scarlet fever that has left her skinny and needing to wear glasses.
19) Saint Iggy
Author
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Library edition.
Language
English
Description
When Iggy Corso gets kicked out of high school, there's no one for him to tell. His mother has gone off, his father is stoned on the couch, and the phone's been disconnected, so even the social worker can't get through. Leaving his public housing behind, Iggy ventures into the world to make something of his life. It's not easy when you're sixteen, have no skills, and your only friend is mixed up with the dealer who got your mom hooked. But Iggy is......
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Cutie Grackle is used to being different--she lives alone on a mountain with her feeble-minded uncle, and when she's not sucking pebbles to trick her stomach into feeling full, she's chatting with a weathered garden gnome for company. But having a flock of ravens follow you is more than just different. Cutie worries the birds are connected to the curse Uncle Horace tends to mutter about. And she's right. The ravens present her with a fortune from...
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