Best children homelessness & poverty books according to redditors
We found 26 Reddit comments discussing the best children homelessness & poverty books. We ranked the 11 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
That's awesome you've involved him in so many other ways of giving!
I think it's really hard for a kid that age to imagine anyone living in circumstances so different from his own life experience. There are a few picture books that might help gently introduce that idea - "Lily and the Paper Man," "Maddi's Fridge", "Uncle Willie and the Soup Kitchen", and "The Teddy Bear" are all age-appropriate stories (http://www.amazon.com/Lily-Paper-Man-Rebecca-Upjohn/dp/189718719X/; http://www.amazon.com/Maddis-Fridge-Lois-Brandt/dp/1936261294/; http://www.amazon.com/Uncle-Willie-Kitchen-Reading-Rainbow/dp/0688152856/; http://www.amazon.com/The-Teddy-Bear-David-McPhail/dp/0805078827).
A favorite of mine is "Ordinary Mary's Extraordinary Deed" by Emily Pearson (http://www.amazon.com/Ordinary-Marys-Extraordinary-Emily-Pearson/dp/0879059788), which is more broadly about acts of kindness. After reading the book you might let him choose another way of giving/helping others, if he's not ready to give up his own toys just yet.
Can't Get There From Here is about runaways in NYC. A character with a tattoo dies, but I think the tattoo is a spiderweb on the face.
http://www.amazon.com/Cant-There-Here-Todd-Strasser/dp/0689841701
I remember reading a book that has always stuck with me called Homeless Bird. It's about an Indian child bride who is married off to a sick boy & then abandoned. This is where I also learned about bride burning. It won the National Book Award. I read a book a day when I was little & I don't remember many of them yet this one sticks out, 20 years later. For good reason.
https://www.amazon.com/Crenshaw-Katherine-Applegate/dp/1250043239
Maybe Homeless Bird by Gloria Whelan?
It's middle grade and some of the reviews published on Amazon sound like your book: Arranged marriage, husband quickly dies, lives with her mother-in-law.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B001NRNITY/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
This was originally published in 2000, but it sounds like Homeless Bird by Gloria Wheelan. According to the preview of this study guide, they hang out near a mango tree.
> Whenever they have a chance, the girls swing in the mango tree, and they love their afternoons alone in the courtyard for their...
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How in-depth does it have to be? Lyddie is an elementary school introduction to the factory business ethics of the industrial revolution.
Homeless Bird?
If you are referencing Gracie's Girl, congrats on being another 2edgy4u internet asshole. Clever and original 8/8 m8 gr8 h8.
Edit: Apologies, I was a bit oversensitive when I wrote that and assumed the comment was basically saying it was done intentionally to get attention.