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Fire in the Ashes: Twenty-Five Years Among the Poorest Children in America

6 best books like Fire in the Ashes: Twenty-Five Years Among the Poorest Children in America (Jonathan Kozol): Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America, Walking with Miss Millie, Teddy's Button, A Peep Behind the Scenes, What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
AuthorMatthew Desmond
ISBN0553447432
In Evicted, Princeton sociologist and MacArthur "Genius" Matthew Desmond follows eight families in Milwaukee as they struggle to keep a roof over their heads. Evicted transforms our understanding of poverty and economic exploitation while providing fresh ideas for solving one of 21st-century...
$2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America
AuthorKathryn Edin
ISBN0544303180
A revelatory account of poverty in America so deep that we, as a country, don’t think it exists

Jessica Compton’s family of four would have no cash income unless she donated plasma twice a week at her local donation center in Tennessee. Modonna Harris and her teenage daughter Brianna in...
Walking with Miss Millie
AuthorTamara Bundy
ISBN0399544569
A poignant middle grade debut about the friendship between a white girl and an elderly black woman in the 1960s South

Alice is angry at having to move to Rainbow, Georgia—a too small, too hot, dried-up place she’s sure will never feel like home. Then she gets put in charge of walking her elderly...
Teddy's Button
AuthorAmy Le Feuvre
ISBN1584740272
Here is a story that will open a child's understanding of the spiritual battle within as Teddy learns that he is his own worst enemy. As a stubborn boy and girl refuse to back down from their selfish pride, one of the many lessons they learn is that they cannot win battles by force and hate, but by carrying...
A Peep Behind the Scenes
AuthorMrs. O.F. Walton
ISBN1584740035
Behind many smiling faces there hides a hurting heart, and for what may appear to be glamorous, there is usually a high price to pay. Mrs. Walton gives us a glimpse into the life of a disillusioned young actress. In her fabricated world of glamour and glitz, Rosalie finds solace in the words of a gentle old...
What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays
AuthorDamon Young
ISBN0062898221
From the cofounder of VerySmartBrothas.com, and one of the most read writers on race and culture at work today, a provocative and humorous memoir-in-essays that explores the ever-shifting definitions of what it means to be Black (and male) in America.

For Damon Young, existing while...
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