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Ajaiyi and His Inherited Poverty
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Ajaiyi and His Inherited PovertyAjaiyi and His Inherited Poverty

This is the story of Ajaiyi, a man born into poverty who is determined to improve his situation. In the hope of finding the money he needs, he travels through unfamiliar lands filled with strange creatures. He meets the Spirit of Fire with its huge feathered head and flaming body, and receives assistance from a wizard and a unicorn. Yet, in the end, the answer to his woes is not far from home.  Amos Tutuola was born in Abeokuta, Nigeria, in 1920. His first novel, The Palm-Wine Drinkard, was acquired by T. S. Eliot and published by Faber in 1952.
 
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From Poverty To Power
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From Poverty To PowerFrom Poverty To Power

UNREST and pain and sorrow are the shadows of life. There is no heart in all the world that has not felt the sting of pain, no mind that has not been tossed upon the dark waters of trouble, no eye that has not wept the hot, blinding tears of unspeakable anguish. There is no house- hold where the Great Destroyers, disease and death, have not entered, severing heart from heart, and casting over all the dark pall of sorrow.
 
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Teaching with Poverty in Mind: What Being Poor Does to Kids' Brains and What Schools Can Do about It
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Teaching with Poverty in Mind: What Being Poor Does to Kids' Brains and What Schools Can Do about It

In Teaching with Poverty in Mind: What Being Poor Does to Kids' Brains and What Schools Can Do About It, veteran educator and brain expert Eric Jensen takes an unflinching look at how poverty hurts children, families, and communities across the United States and demonstrates how schools can improve the academic achievement and life readiness of economically disadvantaged students.
 
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Handbook of Early Childhood Development Research and Its Impact on Global Policy
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Handbook of Early Childhood Development Research and Its Impact on Global PolicyEarly childhood development research offers solutions to several of the world's social and economic problems - solutions that can break the cycle of intergenerational poverty, improve the health, education, and wellbeing of the global population, and yield high rates of return on investment in the formative years of life. And yet over one-third of children worldwide under five years of age still fail to achieve their full developmental potential due to malnutrition, poverty, disease, neglect, and lack of learning opportunities.
 
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Les Miserables: Penguin Readers, Level 6
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Les Miserables: Penguin Readers, Level 6After spending nineteen years in prison for stealing a loaf of bread, Jean Valjean is at last a free man. But he is a cold, tired, hungry man with no money and not a friend in the world. But then something happens that will change his life forever. As a result, he spends the rest of his life helping the victims of poverty and social injustice: 'les miserables.'
 
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