Las Animas - Bent County Library District

Picture book encouraging kids to be proud of what makes them unique, where they come from, and how they express themselves and see the world.

Thirteen-year-old Manny, a street kid fighting for survival in a Mexican border town, develops a strange friendship with an emotionally disturbed American soldier who decides to help him get across the border.

"An eye-opening memoir of working-class poverty in the American Midwest. During Sarah Smarsh's turbulent childhood in Kansas in the 1980s and 1990s, the forces of cyclical poverty and the country's changing economic policies solidified her family's place among the working poor. By telling the story of her life and the lives of the people she loves, Smarsh challenges us to look more closely at the class divide in our country and examine the myths about...

Becoming homeless happens-but how does it feel when it happens to you? Being homeless is a devastating and life-changing experience that happens to thousands of young people every year. Discover what it is like to be made homeless through the heartfelt stories of survivors. Learn how it "happened to them," read their journeys out of homelessness, and find out more about what causes people to become homeless in this open, sensitive, and informative...

Nory Ryan's family has lived on Maidin Bay on the west coast of Ireland for generations, raising a pig and a few chickens, planting potatoes, getting by. Every year Nory's father goes away on a fishing boat and returns with the rent money for the English lord who owns their cottage and fields, the English lord bent upon forcing the Irish from their land so he can tumble the cottages and clear the fields for grazing. Times are never easy on Maidin...

Discusses the problem of homelessness in our society, how and why people become homeless, what happens to homeless people, and possible remedies for this situation.

When thirteen-year-old Koly enters into an ill-fated arranged marriage, she must either suffer a destiny dictated by India's tradition or find the courage to oppose it.

Deeply wounded by her embittered mother's lack of sympathy for her aspirations, Elnora finds comfort in the nearby Limberlost Swamp, whose beauty and rich abundance provide her with the means to better her life.

When jaded oil tycoon Nick Rudolph discovers a homeless Myla Howell and her two children on a cold winter night, even this self-proclaimed nonbeliever knows that this is no way to spend Christmas. So he takes the brood under his wing--and the ragamuffin family miraculously captures his secretly lonely heart. Neither he nor Myla can deny there is an attraction, but both have too much pride to admit they need one another. Will God's loving grace show...