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November 12-20, National Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week
Understanding Poverty: Books for Kids
Understanding Poverty: Books for Kids
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Maddi's fridge is almost empty, while Sophia's fridge is full of food. How can Sophia help her friend Maddi without breaking her promise not to tell anyone?
4) Open throat
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"A novel narrated by a queer and hungry mountain lion living in the drought-devastated land beneath the Hollywood sign"--
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"Lydia is hungry. She's always wanted to try Japanese food. Sashimi, ramen, onigiri with sour plum stuffed inside -- the food her Japanese father liked to eat. And then there is bubble tea and iced-coffee, ice cream and cake, and foraged herbs and plants, and the vegetables grown by the other young artists at the London studio space she is secretly squatting in. But, Lydia can't eat any of these things. Her body doesn't work like those of other people....
7) Free lunch
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"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...
11) Hippo owns up
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When hippo misses breakfast and gets hungry at school, he eats an entire cake that was supposed to be for everyone. Includes a glossary, index, suggestions for discussion and activities, and resources for further information.
12) Too much noise!
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When Bear's noisy, rumbling tummy wakes up Rabbit, Rabbit sets out to find food for Bear. He works all night to feed Bear fish, nuts, and berries. The two friends finally go to sleep, but now Rabbit's snoring keeps Bear awake! Includes a quiz.
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Find out about the characters, the controversy, and how the books have been transformed for the Hollywood screen
A is for Action Scenes—the Hunger Games trilogy is full of nail-biting action and tense battle scenes. B is for Bestselling Books—The Hunger Games and Catching Fire, the first two books in the series, were each New York Times bestsellers, and Mockingjay topped all the bestseller lists. C
...15) The book eaters
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"Sunyi Dean's The Book Eaters is a contemporary fantasy debut. It's a story of motherhood, sacrifice, and hope; of queer identity and learning to accept who you are; of gilded lies and the danger of believing the narratives others create for you. Out on the Yorkshire Moors lives a secret line of people for whom books are food, and who retain all of a book's content after eating it. To them, spy novels are a peppery snack; romance novels are sweet...
17) Hungry
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In Thalia's world there is no more food and no need for food, as everyone takes medication to ward off hunger. But when she meets a boy who is part of an underground movement to bring food back, she realizes that the meds are not working.
18) Hungry Jim
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Jim wakes up hungry, just not for the pancakes his mother is fixing--so his imagination takes over, and he pictures himself as a lion checking out the possibilities for breakfast (including his mother).
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"James Beard Award-winning author Kim Foster reveals a new portrait of hunger and humanity in America. Food is a conduit for connection; we envision smiling families gathered around a table-eating, happy, content. But what happens when poverty, mental illness, homelessness, and addiction claim a seat at the table? In The Meth Lunches, James Beard award-winning writer Kim Foster peers behind the polished visions of perfectly curated dinners and charming...