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Poor little bitch girl [sound recording (CD)] / by Collins, Jackie.;
Read by Jackie Collins ... [et al].
Subjects: Romantic suspense fiction.; Audiobooks.; Murder; Upper class;
© p2010., Macmillan Audio,
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The queen of Katwe : a story of life, chess, and one extraordinary girl's rise from an African slum / by Crothers, Tim.;
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Subjects: Mutesi, Phiona.; Women chess players; Poor girls;
© c2012., Random House Canada,
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The girl in the middle : growing up between black and white, rich and poor / by Granofsky, Anais,author.;
"A moving and vivid memoir of a young girl switching between worlds, wanting only to be loved. When Anais Granofsky's parents met at Antioch College in Ohio in the early 1970s, they were each foreign and fascinating to the other - he, Stanley, the son of fantastically wealthy Jewish family from Toronto and she, Jean, one of 15 children from a poor Black Methodist family who are the direct descendants of the freed Randolph slaves. When they became pregnant at 19 and 22, they didn't anticipate being cut off by the wealthy Granofskys. Neither did they anticipate that Stanley, soon to rename himself Fakeer, would find his calling in the spiritual teaching of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (subject of the Netflix doc Wild, Wild Country) and leave his family for the ashram in India. The Girl in the Middle is the story of the child that was born into these two, very different worlds and who spent her life navigating between them. Alone, Anais and her mother teetered on the poverty line, sharing a mattress in a single room in social housing in Toronto, while her grandparents lived a twenty-minute car ride away on the mansion-lined Bridle Path. As Anais grew up, she was invited to spend weekends with her wealthy grandmother, putting on special clothes when she arrived and being served lunch by the pool, while often she and her mother did not know where their next meal would come from. Anais soon realized that if she wanted to be loved, she had to learn to live two lives. Anais's memoir offers a powerful lens into how these two families, one white and one Black, faced systematic oppression spanning multiple generations and came out at opposite economic classes-and how they clashed when they shared a granddaughter. With compassionate and vivid storytelling, Granofsky shares her experiences of living with each foot in opposing worlds and explores generational shame, grief, and prejudice, and ultimately love and forgiveness. Based on the viral Toronto Life article."--
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Granofsky, Anais; Granofsky, Anais; Poor; Television actors and actresses; Black Canadians;
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Girl of the southern sea / by Kadarusman, Michelle,1969-;
Fourteen-year-old Nia struggles to support her young brother in her father's absence in Jakarta, while also trying to get together enough money to pay for her school tuition fees.LSC
Subjects: Poor children; Teenage girls; Child authors; Teenage marriage; Survival;
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Splinters : (this girl needs a miracle--) / by Sylvester, Kevin.;
A retelling of the Cinderella story in which a poor girl who plays great hockey dreams of belonging to a real team."For ages 6-8"--T.p. verso.LSC
Subjects: Hockey stories.; Hockey players; Hockey for girls;
© c2010., Tundra Books,
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Amari and the night brothers / by Alston, B. B.;
Thirteen-year-old Amari, a poor Black girl from the projects, gets an invitation from her missing brother to join the Bureau of Supernatural Affairs and join in the fight against an evil magician.LSC
Subjects: Fantasy fiction.; Magic; Missing persons; Brothers and sisters; African Americans;
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Jamie MacGillivray : the renegade's journey / by Sayles, John,1950-author.;
After cheating the hangman twice--once after the Battle of Culloden in Scotland and again at Marshalsea Prison--Jamie MacGillivray is sentenced to indentured servitude in colonial America where he teams up with a poor village girl similarly sentenced through serfdom, revolt, escape, and romantic entanglements.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; Culloden, Battle of, Scotland, 1746; Indentured servants; Man-woman relationships; Scots; Lenape;
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Where the mountain meets the moon / by Lin, Grace.;
Minli, an adventurous girl from a poor village, buys a magical goldfish, and then joins a dragon who cannot fly on a quest to find the Old Man of the Moon in hopes of bringing life to Fruitless Mountain and freshness to Jade River.LSC
Subjects: Fantasy fiction.; Poor children; Dragons; Quests (Expeditions); Magic; Folklore;
© 2011, c2009., Little, Brown and Co.,
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Who was Mother Teresa? / by Gigliotti, Jim.; Groff, David,1956-;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 104-105).Presents the life of an Albanian girl, Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, who became known as Mother Teresa and spent most of her life serving "the poorest of the poor" in Calcutta, India.LSC
Subjects: Teresa, Mother, Saint, 1910-1997; Missionaries of Charity; Nuns; Missionaries;
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Crazy/beautiful [videorecording]. by Hernandez, Jay; Dunst, Kirsten;
Jay Hernandez, Kirsten Dunst.DVD.CHVRS rating: 14A.A poor Latin boy makes a great deal of sacrifices in his attempt to make more out of his life. He goes to school in an affluent, mostly white neighborhood where he falls for a local girl whose troubles threaten to destroy his future.
Subjects: Drama.; Drama.;
© 2002., Touchstone Home Entertainment,
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