poverty

More stories of Jennifer Worth's days as a midwife in post-World War II London.

More stories of Jennifer Worth's days as a midwife in post-World War II London.

Examines and provides real-life accounts of urban poor families living in Mumbai, India.

From age three, McCutcheon Daniels, now sixteen, has been trained in Mixed Martial Arts and must keep winning to feed his five-year-old sister and father, but chance presents an opportunity to get out of the Detroit slums using his brain instead of his fighting skills.

Armando must help his father pick through trash in the dump everyday but he would rather attend Senor David's school. After his father and mother decide he can go to the school in the afternoons, Armando is filled with happiness. While he learns many new things, Armando's love of drawing ends up helping his neighborhood in a big way.

Explores the causes of the 2008 financial recession and describes how recession has led to a new kind of poverty in the United States.

Presents an English translation of a French novel by early nineteenth-century author Honore Balzac in which Pere Goirot, a man who has risen from laborer to prosperous merchant, is rejected by his daughters and his community when his fortune wanes.

In nineteenth-century Scotland, following the death of his mother during surgery, Robbie decides to take revenge on the surgeon who performed the operation, Dr. Robert Knox, and in the process, makes a gruesome discovery about the lengths the medical profession will go to advance its knowledge of anatomy.