12 Best Homelessness & Poverty, Juvenile Fiction Books
Homelessness & Poverty, Juvenile Fiction is a popular category for many book lovers. Our team at Speechify has curated a list of the top Homelessness & Poverty, Juvenile Fiction audiobooks everyone must read.
See the top 12 Homelessness & Poverty, Juvenile Fiction audiobooks below.
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Stay
- By: Bobbie Pyron
- Narrator: Kathleen McInerney
- Length: 6 hours 5 minutes
- Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books
- Publish date: August 13, 2019
- Language: English
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4.33(581 ratings)
4.33(581 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0021.99 USDFans of Pax and A Dog’s Way Home will love this heartwarming story of a girl living in a shelter and the homeless dog she’s determined to reunite with his family. Piper’s life is turned upside down when her family moves into aFans of Pax and A Dog’s Way Home will love this heartwarming story of a girl living in a shelter and the homeless dog she’s determined to reunite with his family.
Piper’s life is turned upside down when her family moves into a shelter in a whole new city. She misses her house, her friends, and her privacy–and she hates being labeled the homeless girl at her new school.
But while Hope House offers her new challenges, it also brings new friendships, like the girls in Firefly Girls Troop 423 and a sweet street dog named Baby. So when Baby’s person goes missing, Piper knows she has to help. But helping means finding the courage to trust herself and her new friends, no matter what anyone says about them–before Baby gets taken away for good.
Told in alternating perspectives, this classic and heartfelt animal tale proclaims the importance of hope, the power of story, and the true meaning of home.
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Tune It Out
- By: Jamie Sumner
- Narrator: Cindy Kay
- Length: 5 hours 22 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2020
- Language: English
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4.32(1562 ratings)
4.32(1562 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDFrom the author of the acclaimed Roll with It comes a moving novel about a girl with a sensory processing disorder who has to find her own voice after her whole world turns upside down.Lou Montgomery has the voice of an angel, or so her mother tellsFrom the author of the acclaimed Roll with It comes a moving novel about a girl with a sensory processing disorder who has to find her own voice after her whole world turns upside down.
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Lou Montgomery has the voice of an angel, or so her mother tells her and anyone else who will listen. But Lou can only hear the fear in her own voice. She’s never liked crowds or loud noises or even high fives; in fact, she’s terrified of them, which makes her pretty sure there’s something wrong with her.
When Lou crashes their pickup on a dark and snowy road, child services separate the mother-daughter duo. Now she has to start all over again at a fancy private school far away from anything she’s ever known. With help from an outgoing new friend, her aunt and uncle, and the school counselor, she begins to see things differently. A sensory processing disorder isn’t something to be ashamed of, and music might just be the thing that saves Lou–and maybe her mom, too. -
The Little Match Girl Strikes Back
- By: Emma Carroll
- Narrator: Imogen Wilde
- Length: 1 hours 40 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
- Publish date: January 01, 2022
- Language: English
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4.3(121 ratings)
4.3(121 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0013.99 USDIt only takes one strike! A powerful feminist reworking of the Hans Christian Andersen classic, from bestselling and award-winning creators Emma Carroll and Lauren Child.Bridie works hard to feed her family, selling matches on the streets ofIt only takes one strike! A powerful feminist reworking of the Hans Christian Andersen classic, from bestselling and award-winning creators Emma Carroll and Lauren Child.
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Bridie works hard to feed her family, selling matches on the streets of Victorian London. After an incident leaves her with only three matches left, the magical strike of each one sees her tumble into visions of a brighter future. Realizing she has the power to change her own fortune, Bridie leads the match factory workers out on strike, achieving the remarkable through their unity and courage.
A defiant and empowering retelling of the classic you thought you knew, based on real-life events, this stunning collaboration brought to life in glorious spot colour introduces a bold new heroine for future generations to treasure. -
The Rent Collector
- By: Camron Wright
- Narrator: Emily Woo Zeller
- Length: 7 hours 25 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2022
- Language: English
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4.26(34685 ratings)
4.26(34685 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0016.95 USDBased on true events. Sang Ly lives at Cambodia’s city dump and is grateful she can help earn a living for her family by sifting through the trash for recyclables and things that can be repaired and sold. On a good day, she can earn enough toBased on true events.
Sang Ly lives at Cambodia’s city dump and is grateful she can help earn a living for her family by sifting through the trash for recyclables and things that can be repaired and sold. On a good day, she can earn enough to buy food for her family. She needs enough good days so she can pay the rent collector, Sopeap–a grumpy old woman who shows no mercy and who is willing to evict any tenant who can’t pay their rent on time.
When Sang Ly is unable to pay her rent for the month, she fears her family will have to leave the dump and their shanty home, a place where her only possessions can be carried in two hands. Little does she know that a discarded children’s book found among the mounds of trash would save her. When Sopeap sees the book lying on Sang Ly’s cardboard bed, her mood changes. Sang Ly offers her the book if she is allowed to keep her family at the dump.
An unlikely friendship develops between the two women, and Sang Ly learns that Sopeap knows how to read–something that Sang Ly has always wanted to learn. Being able to read could transform Sang Ly’s world beyond the predictable confines of the dump and lead to a future with possibilities and hope. But the rent collector has a secret and tragic past, one that will not be easy for Sang Ly to navigate.
With the help of her supportive husband, Ki Lim, and a helpful and humorous boy, Lucky Fat, Sang Ly embarks on a life-changing journey to give her young son, Nisay, a better life and future. The Rent Collector is about the power of literacy, the influence of the past, and finding hope, resiliency, and empowerment in the face of seemingly endless hardship.
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My Jasper June
- By: Laurel Snyder
- Narrator: Imani Parks
- Length: 8 hours 27 minutes
- Publisher: Walden Pond Press
- Publish date: September 03, 2019
- Language: English
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4.21(1879 ratings)
4.21(1879 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USD“This book is a treasure–a touching story of friendship, loss, and finding beauty in the everyday, with characters who stay with you long after you’ve turned the final page. I absolutely loved it.”–R. J. Palacio, New“This book is a treasure–a touching story of friendship, loss, and finding beauty in the everyday, with characters who stay with you long after you’ve turned the final page. I absolutely loved it.”–R. J. Palacio, New York Times bestselling author of Wonder
Laurel Snyder, author of Orphan Island, returns with another unforgettable story of the moments in which we find out who we are, and the life-altering friendships that show us what we can be.
The school year is over, and it is summer in Atlanta. The sky is blue, the sun is blazing, and the days brim with possibility. But Leah feels. . . lost. She has been this way since one terrible afternoon a year ago, when everything changed. Since that day, her parents have become distant, her friends have fallen away, and Leah’s been adrift and alone.
Then she meets Jasper, a girl unlike anyone she has ever known. There’s something mysterious about Jasper, almost magical. And Jasper, Leah discovers, is also lost.
Together, the two girls carve out a place for themselves, a hideaway in the overgrown spaces of Atlanta, away from their parents and their hardships, somewhere only they can find.
But as the days of this magical June start to draw to a close, and the darker realities of their lives intrude once more, Leah and Jasper have to decide how real their friendship is, and whether it can be enough to save them both.
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Max Einstein: The Genius Experiment
- By: James Patterson
- Narrator: Andrea Emmes
- Length: 5 hours 29 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: October 08, 2018
- Language: English
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4.19(1859 ratings)
4.19(1859 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0021.98 USDWhat Harry Potter did for magic, Max Einstein does for kids’ imaginations! Max leads a group of kid geniuses in this #1 New York Times bestseller officially approved by the Albert Einstein archives.Max Einstein is not your typical genius. She... Read moreWhat Harry Potter did for magic, Max Einstein does for kids’ imaginations! Max leads a group of kid geniuses in this #1 New York Times bestseller officially approved by the Albert Einstein archives.Max Einstein is not your typical genius. She . . .- Hacks the computer system at NYU to attend classes
- Builds inventions to help the homeless
- And talks to Albert Einstein! (Okay, that’s just in her imagination)
But everything changes when Max is recruited by a mysterious organization! Their mission: solve some of the world’s toughest problems using science. She’s helped by a diverse group of young geniuses from around the globe as they invent new ways to power the farthest reaches of the planet. But that’s only if the sinister outfit known only as The Corporation doesn’t get to her first . . .Max Einstein is a heroine for the modern age and will be looked up to by readers for generations to come.“[A] fast-paced, science-filled caper.” — The Wall Street Journal -
Simon B. Rhymin’
- By: Dwayne Reed
- Narrator: Dwayne Reed
- Length: 3 hours 24 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: March 02, 2021
- Language: English
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4.09(564 ratings)
4.09(564 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0018.99 USDA humorous and heartwarming bounce-to-the-beat underdog story about a young rapper whose rhymes help bring his community together, from America’s favorite rapping teacher.As featured on Good Morning America!Eleven-year-old Simon Barnes dreamsA humorous and heartwarming bounce-to-the-beat underdog story about a young rapper whose rhymes help bring his community together, from America’s favorite rapping teacher.
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As featured on Good Morning America!
Eleven-year-old Simon Barnes dreams of becoming a world-famous rapper that everyone calls Notorious D.O.G. But for now, he’s just a Chicago fifth grader who’s small for his age and afraid to use his voice.
Simon prefers to lay low at school and at home, even though he’s constantly spitting rhymes in his head. But when his new teacher assigns the class an oral presentation on something that affects their community, Simon must face his fears.
With some help from an unexpected ally and his neighborhood crew, will Simon gain the confidence to rap his way to an A and prove that one kid can make a difference in his ‘hood?
Dwayne Reed is a Chicago teacher, whose viral back-to-school music video “Welcome to the 4th Grade” took the internet by storm. His debut novel, Simon B. Rhymin’ , inspires young readers everywhere to use their voice to create change within their communities. -
Everlasting Nora
- By: Marie Miranda Cruz
- Narrator: Amielynn Abellera
- Length: 8 hours 29 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: October 02, 2018
- Language: English
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4.06(698 ratings)
4.06(698 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.99 USD“If the middle grade Filipino American market had an audio representative, Abellera would be the reigning voice” — School Library Journal *Winner of a Parents’ Choice Silver Award*This program includes a bonus conversation“If the middle grade Filipino American market had an audio representative, Abellera would be the reigning voice” — School Library Journal
*Winner of a Parents’ Choice Silver Award*
This program includes a bonus conversation with the author.An uplifting middle-grade debut about perseverance against all odds, Marie Miranda Cruz’s debut Everlasting Nora follows the story of a young girl living in the real-life shanty town inside the Philippines’ North Manila Cemetery.
After a family tragedy results in the loss of both father and home, 12-year-old Nora lives with her mother in Manila’s North Cemetery, which is the largest shanty town of its kind in the Philippines today.
When her mother disappears mysteriously one day, Nora is left alone.
With help from her best friend Jojo and the support of his kindhearted grandmother, Nora embarks on a journey riddled with danger in order to find her mom. Along the way she also rediscovers the compassion of the human spirit, the resilience of her community, and everlasting hope in the most unexpected places.
“Heartwarming!”–Melissa de la Cruz
“A story of friendship and unrelenting hope.”–Erin Entrada Kelly
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The Kaya Girl
- By: Mamle Wolo
- Narrator: Ekua Ekeme
- Length: 6 hours 49 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: June 28, 2022
- Language: English
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3.96(210 ratings)
3.96(210 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.98 USDThis rags-to-riches story by an award-winning Ghanaian author has page-turning appeal with luminous literary resonance. Writing with effortlessly engaging prose, Wolo showcases the interweaving layers of Ghanaian culture to create a prismatic,This rags-to-riches story by an award-winning Ghanaian author has page-turning appeal with luminous literary resonance.
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Writing with effortlessly engaging prose, Wolo showcases the interweaving layers of Ghanaian culture to create a prismatic, multifaceted world in which two young girls, against all odds, are able to find each other.
When Faiza, a Muslim migrant girl from northern Ghana, and Abena, a wealthy doctor’s daughter from the south, meet by chance in Accra’s largest market, where Faiza works as a porter or kaya girl, they strike up an unlikely and powerful friendship that transcends their social inequities and opens up new worlds to them both.
Set against a backdrop of class disparity in Ghana, The Kaya Girl has shades of The Kite Runner in its unlikely friendship, and of Slumdog Millionaire as Faiza’s life takes unlikely turns that propel her thrillingly forward. As, over the course of the novel, Abena awakens to the world outside her sheltered, privileged life, the novel explores a multitude of awakenings and the opportunities that lie beyond the breaking down of barriers. This is a gorgeously transporting work, offering vivid insight into two strikingly diverse young lives in Ghana. -
How to Steal a Dog
- By: Barbara O’Connor
- Narrator: Barbara O'Connor
- Length: 4 hours 8 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: May 25, 2012
- Language: English
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3.96(11006 ratings)
3.96(11006 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0012.99 USDBarbara O’ Connor’s How to Steal a Dog blew critics away and quickly became a fan-favorite. After being abandoned by her father, Georgina Hayes is forced to spend much of her time watching her younger brother, while their mother worksBarbara O’ Connor’s How to Steal a Dog blew critics away and quickly became a fan-favorite. After being abandoned by her father, Georgina Hayes is forced to spend much of her time watching her younger brother, while their mother works two jobs to make ends meet. When she sees a missing-dog poster offering a $500 reward, Georgina cooks up a scheme to steal a look-a-like dog and claim the reward. But things don’ t quite go as planned.
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A Slip of a Girl
- By: Patricia Reilly Giff
- Narrator: Alana Kerr Collins
- Length: 1 hours 53 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: December 24, 2019
- Language: English
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3.94(486 ratings)
3.94(486 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDFor Anna, the family farm has always been home… but now things are changing. Anna’s mother has died, and her older siblings have emigrated, leaving Anna and her father to care for a young sister with special needs. And even thoughFor Anna, the family farm has always been home… but now things are changing.
Anna’s mother has died, and her older siblings have emigrated, leaving Anna and her father to care for a young sister with special needs. And even though their family has worked this land for years, they’re in danger of losing it as poor crop yields leave them without money to pay their rent.
When a violent encounter with the Lord’s rent collector results in Anna and her father’s arrest, all seems lost. But Anna sees her chance and bolts from the jailhouse. On the run, Anna must rely on her own inner strength to protect her sister–and try to find a way to save her family.
Written in verse by a master of historical fiction, A Slip of a Girl is a poignant story of adversity, resilience, and self-determination that paints a haunting picture of the tensions in the Irish countryside in the early 1890s and the aftermath of the Great Famine.
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The Red Pencil
- By: Andrea Davis Pinkney
- Narrator: Shane W. Evans
- Length: 3 hours 12 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: September 16, 2014
- Language: English
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3.91(6158 ratings)
3.91(6158 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0021.98 USD“Amira, look at me,” Muma insists.She collects both my hands in hers.“The Janjaweed attack without warning.If ever they come— run.”Finally, Amira is twelve. Old enough to wear a toob, old enough for new... Read more“Amira, look at me,” Muma insists.She collects both my hands in hers.“The Janjaweed attack without warning.If ever they come— run.”Finally, Amira is twelve. Old enough to wear a toob, old enough for new responsibilities. And maybe old enough to go to school in Nyala— Amira’s one true dream.But life in her peaceful Sudanese village is shattered when the Janjaweed arrive. The terrifying attackers ravage the town and unleash unspeakable horrors. After she loses nearly everything, Amira needs to dig deep within herself to find the strength to make the long journey— on foot— to safety at a refugee camp. Her days are tough at the camp, until the gift of a simple red pencil opens her mind— and all kinds of possibilities.New York Times bestselling and Coretta Scott King Award-winning author Andrea Davis Pinkney’s powerful verse and Coretta Scott King Award-winning artist Shane W. Evans’s breathtaking illustrations combine to tell an inspiring tale of one girl’s triumph against all odds.
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