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K.E.1.1. Explain how families have needs and wants based on economic concepts.

K.G.2.2 Explain ways people use environmental resources to meet basic needs and wants (shelter, food, clothing, etc.).

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I want to introduce my students to poverty and hunger. I want to build my unit plan around different perspectives of poverty with the use of children's literature books that introduce the topics of the serious topics of hunger and poverty in our world. We will brainstorm ideas of how we can help and what it is like to be hungry while trying to learn. We will discuss how hard it can be to learn without having food and nutrients in our body.

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My unit focus is going to be based on poverty and hunger. I will be focusing on Global Goals 1 & 2 which are No Poverty and Zero Hunger. I will be aligning my unit focus with the Kindergarten essential standards K.E.1.1 and K.G.2.2.

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I absolutely love this website. It is an educational website that students can do that allows them to answer reading, math, social studies questions daily to earn virtual rice into a bowl and once the bowl is full, it feeds kids around the world.

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I felt like these were really good images to show students to get them thinking about things we need versus what we want.
Many are taken in places were hunger and poverty is dominant in the entire area. Great idea for a see, think, wonder routine.

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This is a really neat blog that goes on to explain how to teach kids about hunger. It talks about her experiences with teaching children and how it worked out. She also includes a survival biscuit recipe that shows kids how to cook with what you have available at home.

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Most kids could probably tell you what the word "hunger" means. After all, I must hear our 5 year old say "Mom, I'm hungry" at least 15 times a day!

But how can we help them understand why some children, day after day, do not have enough to eat? What can parents and educators do to nurture kids' empathy and fuel their desire for fairness?

In this post, I share 3 activities for kids ages 3 - 12. These resource will help them understand what the causes of hunger are as well as its far-reaching effects.

In situations of famine, emergency food assistance can mean the difference between life and death. Survival biscuits, also called high energy biscuits, can be used in the first days of a food emergency when cooking facilities aren't available. They are fortified with vitamins and minerals and a lot of protein.

You can mimic the taste of survival biscuits with this recipe, provided by the hunger assistance organization Church World Service.

Survival Biscuit Recipe

Ingredients:

1/2 cup sweetened condensed milk (can substitute 1/3 cup of brown sugar and 1/2 cup of milk)
1 cup wheat flour or soy flour
1/4 cup margarine or shortening
1/4 cup water

Scatter a small amount of cornmeal on a 9 inch x 12 inch cookie sheet. Mix all the ingredients together in a mixing bowl, and pat it out onto your prepared cookie sheet. Bake at 400 degrees for 15 minutes. After they have cooled, cut them into wafers, about 2 inches x 2.5 inches.

After you've tried the biscuits, ask your children what they think it would be like to only have these biscuits to eat for several days. How do you think your body would feel?

Depending on your child's age, you can also talk about two types of hunger people face: starvation and malnutrition. These survival biscuits are used in situations of famine, where people are at risk of death by starving.

According to the World Food Programme, one in nine people do not get enough to eat each day.

A much larger number of people, one in three, are malnourished. This means that they may technically be getting enough calories to eat. However, the food they eat lacks the vitamins and minerals that allows their bodies to function well. For example, malnourished children in Guatemala may only eat corn tortillas and salt because it's the only food that's affordable.

Last year, UNICEF started a campaign named #FightUnfair. It focuses on the right of every child to get a fair start in life. They have a series of videos that show the effects of poverty, on children themselves, and on those of us who are not poor as well. (Before showing other videos to your child, be sure to preview them first. I think the video below is appropriate for elementary aged children.)

This short video will likely provide you with a lot of discussion with your children. Two nine year old children, Christina and Nindy, live in neighboring provinces of Indonesia. Yet their lives are drastically different.

After watching the video, ask your kids:

What differences did they notice between Christina and Nindy's days? (If they don't mention food, ask them specifically about what the girls ate.

Pick out a couple of specific things that Nindy and Christina did during the day. Ask your kids how they think each girl was feeling at that time.

Do you think this is fair? What things does every kid need to have a fair start in life?

Urban Ministries of Durham, North Carolina has designed an online simulation about poverty and hunger called SPENT that is incredibly eye-opening. Although it's intended for adults, if you do the simulation with you tween or teen, they should be able to make most of the decisions themselves.

The choices that have to be made are emotionally difficult and show the daily mental and emotional strain of poverty. Participants will also quickly see why so many people end up needing help from food banks.

As you play with your child, if they ask for advice, try to neutrally explain what might happen in each situation. Let them make the actual choices though; they'll learn more that way.

After completing the simulation, ask your kids:

What surprised you about the effects of different choices that they made?

How did you feel as you had to make so many decisions? What do you think it would feel like to have to make these decisions day after day in real life?How might kids feel when their parents have to make these kinds of choices?

What changes do you think we could make as communities or as a nation to make life for fair for everyone?

Do you want your child to show compassion to others, whether they live across the street or around the world? Join our free Kind Kids 5 Day Challenge and watch your child's concern for others grow in just a few days.

Each day you'll receive a short action step that helps kids develop empathy and kindness towards others.

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3 Activities to Teach Kids About Hunger - The Barefoot Mommy

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Most kids could probably tell you what the word "hunger" means. After all, I must hear our 5 year old say "Mom, I'm hungry" at least 15 times a day! But how can we help them understand why some children, day after day, do not have enough to eat?

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Those Shoes is a great book to read and discuss on the importance of needs vs wants.

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Those Shoes by Maribeth Boelts | Scholastic

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Jeremy, longs to have the black high-tops that everyone at school has, but his grandmother cannot afford them. So he buys an ill-fitting pair at a thrift shop a

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We will learn how to shop for canned food that can be cheap and cooked easily. We will research cheap recipes and bring in canned food. With our canned food, we will write out a recipe and place our recipe on the can for it to be donated to a family of use. We will also learn about SNAP and how it helps kids all around the world. We will then write a letter to congress how important it is to keep SNAP and how by having food, we are able to learn and reach our goals as a student as well as meet the necessary needs of a human being.

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This is a really great resource that breaks down the teaching of needs and wants. It gives real world application questions that make students think and gives them reason behind why things are needs and not wants and vice versa.

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This is a really great lesson that focuses the importance of materialism and having students reflect on what they have learned. It also focuses more so on tolerance and how to maintain budgeting when trying to save money.

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Activities will help students:

Understand the concepts of having, not having and the feelings associated with these concepts

Write complete sentences or paragraphs about what they do and do not have and what this feels like

Engage in meaningful community discussions about the feelings and issues behind having and not having certain things

Analyze and critique media messages that encourage materialism

Consider, discuss and describe in writing the possibility of having non-material riches

How does it feel to have more or less than somebody else?

How do media messages make us feel about what we do and do not have?

Are there deeper possible meanings of the word rich? How can you work to change your own and other's understanding of the idea of richness?

How can we celebrate what we all DO have?

Chart paper

Notebook

Samples of current magazine ads, pictures of billboards near the school and/or current TV ads

Thin line markers

Watercolors

Vocabulary

rich [rich] (adjective) having a lot of something

materialism [muh-teer-ee-uh-liz-uhm] (noun) interest in having a lot of money or material possessions

media [mee-dee-uh] ( noun) mass means of communication, like TV, newspaper, magazines, billboards, music videos or Internet

Procedure

1. What does it mean to have-or not have-something? As a class, brainstorm a list on chart paper of things kids might have that make kids who don't have them feel jealous. Some common examples might include specific articles of clothing or technology.

2. In your notebook, write a sentence and draw a picture or write a paragraph describing an experience you can remember of having something that someone else wanted. Then write a sentence and draw a picture or write a paragraph a describing an experience you can remember of someone else having something you wanted.

3. In a group, talk about the experiences you described. Make sure you discuss how you felt in both of the scenarios you described. Then, in your group or as a class, make a chart showing what it feels like to HAVE and NOT HAVE things that are wanted.

4. Where do we get messages that encourage us to value material possessions so heavily? As a class, examine magazine ads and/or discuss pictures of billboards or common TV ads. How do they encourage viewers to believe that possessing particular things makes us better or cooler as people? For instance, some ads make it seem like if you wear a particular brand of clothing, you will automatically be popular.

5. Discuss strategies for avoiding media messages that encourage materialism. Is this possible? What might make it especially challenging, and how can we move past these challenges?

6. What does it mean to be rich? Does being rich mean you have everything you want? Talk about the idea of being rich and how it relates to the discussion of having and not having. Can you be rich in ways that have nothing to do with material possessions? For instance, you can be rich in family or rich in imagination. As a class, create a chart showing different non-material ways to be rich.

7. Independently or with a partner, write a poem describing one non-material way you are rich. When you have revised your poem, publish it on thick white paper with a thin line marker. Then, using the watercolors, create a watercolor image over your published poem that represents the idea you wrote about.

8. When the watercolors have dried, put together all of your class poems into a "What We Have" book. This beautiful book shows all the different ways your class is rich.

Applying What You've Learned

Think about the conversations you've had and the activities you've done as a class around haves, have-nots, materialism and media messages. Create a poster with a counter message in response to a specific company you've noticed encouraging materialism to children through its advertising. Challenge yourself to use examples from actual messages you've seen the company use. Revise, edit and illustrate your message with a partner. Share your posters with your classmates and discuss the new messages. Then hang your posters up in your class or around the school with permission.

There are also a number of children's books that help address issues of class and social inequality, including, but not limited to, Rich Cat, Poor Cat byBernard Waber, The Hundred Dresses byEleanor Estes, A Chair for My Mother by Vera B. Williams, Chicken Sunday byPatricia Polacco and First Things First byKristi D. Holl.

In small groups, create magazine ads or commercial skits advertising a non-material possession that can make you rich. Share your ads or skits with your class, and compare them to the pieces of media you critiqued as part of the lesson.

ELL Extension

When your class brainstorms the list of ways they are rich, you will notice that these are abstract nouns-words that can be hard to remember because you can't necessarily connect them to a specific picture or object. Choose five new words to keep track of in your notebook. For each word, draw a picture OR write about a memory that you think will really help you recall this word. Your work will be personal, so think about what's truly going to help you remember these big ideas.

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Teaching Tolerance provides free resources to educators-teachers, administrators, counselors and other practitioners-who work with children from kindergarten through high school. Educators use our materials to supplement the curriculum, to inform their practices, and to create civil and inclusive school communities where children are respected, valued and welcome participants.

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This is a great resource for students that shows them a visual of the types of resources we depend on as humans to live.

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Unit - Life and the Environment - The Wonder of Science

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Hugh Jackman received the Order of Australia Medal for his poverty and education efforts in Australia. He launched a campaign called Laughing Man Coffee Company in 2011 that helps farmers with business in Australia that ensures their crops are sold and bought by the US in efforts to maintain business and profits for the Australian area. All proceeds go to helping education.

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Global Citizen campaigns on the United Nations' Global Goals, including Goal 1: No Poverty. You can learn more about ACTIVATE: The Global Citizen Movement here and take action on issues that directly link to ending poverty - like quality education and universal health care - here.
Beloved Australian Hugh Jackman has just received a Companion of the Order of Australia medal, the nation's most prestigious award for outstanding achievement and service.

The medal was handed over by Australian Governor-General David Hurley during an Investiture Ceremony at Government House. According to the governor-general's secretary, Paul Singer, Jackman's services to the performing arts and his poverty eradication efforts are "deserving of [Australia's] highest praise."

The actor, singer, and producer has starred as Wolverine in the X-Men series and had leading roles in The Boy From OZ, The Greatest Showman, and Les Miserables. Over the past year, Jackman also toured his own stage show The Man. The Music. The Show.

While possibly less well known, Jackman's contribution to eradicating extreme poverty is just as considerable.

Jackman launched Laughing Man Coffee Company in 2011. The company is a fair trade brand that sees coffee farmers from developing nations paid appropriately for their work and given the opportunity to sell their goods to customers in the United States.

All profits go to Jackman's Laughing Man Foundation, which supports worldwide education and community programs.

On this occasion, I'm reminded that I share this honor with my parents, siblings, friends and, especially w Deb, Oscar & Ava. There are countless teachers, coaches and mentors who've taught and inspired me along the way. I will forever be in their debt. Thank you Governor General pic.twitter.com/Y9syilF1mx
- Hugh Jackman (@RealHughJackman) September 13, 2019

Jackman is also a dedicated Global Citizen Adviser and has hosted various Global Citizen festivals.

Jackman features prominently in the new six-part documentary series ACTIVATE: The Global Citizen Movement, which was developed by National Geographic and Procter & Gamble and co-produced by Global Citizen and RadicalMedia.

In the first episode of the series, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Becky G, and Jackman join Global Citizen to rally global decision-makers to enact policies to eradicate extreme poverty - which is defined as living on less than $1.90 USD per day.

Jackman is shown throughout the episode getting ready to host the 2018 Global Citizen Festival in New York's Central Park.

"I was lucky enough to be born into a situation with the basic necessities of life. Food, shelter, clothing, education ... freely available to me. Nothing I did, I just happened to get it," Jackman states in the episode. "And then there's a billion people on the planet, nothing they did, and they don't get it."

"It seems to me that there is absolutely no reason why these essential basics of life aren't available to everyone on the planet," he states.Related Stories

Everything You Need to Know About 'ACTIVATE: The Global Citizen Movement'

Jackman took to Twitter after the award ceremony to thank all those who helped him along the way.

"There are countless teachers, coaches, and mentors who've taught and inspired me along the way," he said. "I will forever be in their debt."

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Hugh Jackman Receives Order of Australia Medal for His Poverty Eradication Efforts

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Global Citizen campaigns on the United Nations' Global Goals, including Goal 1: No Poverty. You can learn more about ACTIVATE: The Global Citizen Movement here and take action on issues that directly link to ending poverty - like quality education and universal health care - here.

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Feed the Future works with partner countries to develop their agriculture routines in hopes of it effecting the rate of poverty and hunger in surrounding areas. They are building new ways of approaching hunger in that people are working and becoming more resourceful with the help of the program.

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Feed the Future | Improving Food Security & Nutrition Around the World

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Feed the Future is the U.S. Government's global hunger and food security initiative. It addresses the root causes of hunger and poverty in the developing world to improve global food security and nutrition.

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This is an online game called "SPENT" that is incredibly eye-opening. Although it’s intended for adults, I believe it can be done with teenagers but may be relevant to showing younger students who are mature enough to talk through the real life situations people deal with and have to face.

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Urban Ministries of Durham serves over 6000 people every year who struggle with poverty and homelessness. Spent is an interactive game created by McKinney that challenges you to manage your money, raise a child and make it through the month getting paid minimum wage after a stretch of unemployment.

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These are the historical archives of statistics regarding hunger and poverty from 1959 to 2018.

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Historical Poverty Tables: People and Families - 1959 to 2017

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Detailed annual tables on poverty across a number of individual and family characteristics. Source: Current Population Survey (CPS)

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This article looks more closely into the dollar ratios of how poverty begins and ends. It also takes an interesting perspective in what the world may look like in terms of poverty ratios at and around the year of 2030.

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The SNAP program is a a very well known program that helps families around the world feed children.  It is now launched a campaign called No Kid Hungry that helps feed kids.

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Protect SNAP PSA from Share Our Strength's No Kid Hungry campaign

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How a kid responds to Child hunger.

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This is a read aloud on a book called The Hard Times By: Gabi Sanders. It is a deeper look world hunger and becoming resourceful. This book brought tears to my eyes and I feel is a great eye opening experience and opening statement for students. This is also a great book for windows and mirrors.

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Childrens Literature on Poverty and Hunger 

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This is a great resource that talks about 18 different childrens books that addresses Hunger and Poverty. Many of these books I have never heard of but have been very resourceful in finding a Notable Book for my lesson.

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As a young child, I remember being troubled by the thought that some people lived in poverty. It especially bothered me that some kids didn't have enough to eat. I'd save up my allowance and send a few dollars to world relief organizations, and wish that I could do more.

Our 5 year old also seems to be touched by hunger and homelessness more than other social problems. Maybe it's because kids know what it's like to be hungry, even if it's only for a short period of time.

Talking about the root causes of local and global hunger is a lot more challenging. The books below can help you begin that conversation. I've arranged the list by age, starting with books for the youngest children. Chapter books can be found at the end of the list.
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Yard Sale by Eve Bunting and Lauren Castillo

Unless you're a really tough cookie, reading this book out loud will bring tears to your eyes. Callie's family is moving from their big house into a small apartment. They have to sell almost everything they own. Even Callie's bike is for sale, because there's no sidewalk outside their new apartment. I'm amazed at how Bunting and Castillo have captured the sadness of this event without causing us to feel hopeless. (Recommended for ages 3 - 7).

I had no idea that there are Mennonites from Mexico who travel to Canada each summer as migrant workers. Migrant allows children to peek into their world through the eyes of Anna. Anna thinks of her family being like a flock of geese, going back and forth. She wonders what it would be like to be instead be a tree, rooted in one place. (Recommended for ages 3 - 7).

Read my review here of this beautiful story of how a community makes a meal in the midst of what seems like scarcity.
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This is the true story of how one Ugandan child's life was changed by the gift of a goat from Beatrice helps her mother care for their garden, tends their chickens, and takes care of her younger siblings. She sometimes watches the children outside the schoolhouse, wishing she could be one of them. Her mother can't afford the fees for books and uniforms.

When Beatrice's family is chosen as one of twelve who'll receive a goat, she doesn't understand why her mother is so pleased. After Mugisa arrives, she begins to see how the animal can change her future. (Recommended for ages 4 - 10).

Who would think a story about famine and multiplication could be so engaging? Once in India there lived a raja who kept nearly all the land's rice for himself. Even during a time of famine, he was selfish. When the raja offers to reward Rani for a honest act, all she asks him for is one grain of rice, which he will double each day for thirty days. In the process, she teaches him a valuable lesson about hoarding. Demi's miniature paintings will convey even to younger children how the quantity of rice grows over time. (Recommended for ages 4 - 10).

In this story of Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai, children learn of the power of trees to solve problems of poverty, hunger, sickness, and drought. Each type of tree is attached to a particular person. This slows the story's pace enough for children to grasp about these big problems. Kadir Nelson's stunning illustrations will make you feel as if you are standing right next to the women as they plant their precious trees. (Recommended for ages 4- 10).

of this moving story of the children whose orchestra began in the garbage dumps of Cateura, Paraguay. (Recommended for ages 5 - 10).

This is the true story of a group of children from the barrio San Jose de la Urbina in Caracas, Venezuela, who simply wanted a place to play. Their impoverished community is so crowded that they cannot even play in the streets. With the help of a librarian, the children decide they will press their Mayor to give them a playground. Their bravery prompts their community to rally behind them. (Recommended for ages 6 - 10).

Read my review here of this story of two sisters who are determined to find the money they need for a "magic" lamp that will help their baby brother. (Recommended for ages 6 - 10).
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Emma loves to write stories. Right now, her "books" are made of grocery sacks held together by safety pins, but she dreams of having real store-bought notebooks. She helps her parents earn extra money to put in their "hard-times jar," but she knows that money isn't for extras like notebooks. Since her parents are migrant workers, hard times are sure to come.

Emma is determined to to earn enough extra picking apples that she can get her notebook, but then her mother says that this harvest, she must go to school instead of working in the fields. How will she ever get her real notebook? (Recommended for ages 6 - 10).

Kojo helps his mother gather and sell firewood, but there is never enough to do more than survive. When twenty of the families in their village pool their money for a loan fund, there's a chance for change. Children follow Kojo through the purchase of his first hen, whose extra eggs he will sell at the market, to the poultry farm he develops as an adult, where he gives out loans of his own. (Recommended for ages 6 - 10).

Eliana longs to serve God with her gifts, but isn't sure what to offer. Inspired by her rabbi's sermon, she decides to offer God her bread, since she is the best baker in town. She bakes two of her most extraordinary challah loaves, and places in the Holy Ark in the synagogue.

Unknown to her, Samuel, who sweeps the synagogue floor, comes along a bit later. As he sweeps he prays to God because his children are hungry but he has no money for the Sabbath meal. Finishing his prayer, Samuel notices that the Ark is open. He spots the challah and thanks God for providing it for his family. This goes on each week for years, without Eliana and Samuel knowing about each other's actions, until the rabbi discovers the situation. Will he understand how God is at work? (Recommended for ages 6 - 12).
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One day when there is no clean water available on their long journey to home, Mimi lets her little sister Nakkissi have a drink from a stream. The next day Nakkissi becomes sick, and her mother must take them to the neighboring village to see the nurse. Mimi learns about simple cures that the nurse offers there, and wishes that her community could have its own clinic.

This fictional story introduces children to the real life basic interventions that make a tremendous difference in the lives of children facing poverty. (Recommended for ages 6 - 10).

This classic book, written in 1944, is sure to help children develop empathy towards kids like them who struggle with poverty. Wanda Petronski, a Polish immigrant in a small town, seems strange to many of the other girls in her class. She wears the same faded dress to school every day, but claims she has 100 dresses at home.

When her best friend Peggy begins teasing Wanda every day about the dresses, Maddie is uncomfortable. Maddie is no stranger to poverty. She has to wear other people's hand-me-downs. Will saying something to Peggy mean the end of their friendship? When Wanda stops coming to school, Maddie has to think long and hard about her silence. (Recommended for ages 7 - 12).

Naima is a talented painter, creating beautiful alpana patterns that Bangladeshi women paint in their homes for special occasions. But when her father cannot bring in enough money from his rickshaw business to support them, she wishes she were a boy so that she could help him drive the rickshaw.

Naima decides she will dress as a boy and try to drive it while her father is asleep, but her efforts end in disaster. When her mother decides they must sell the wedding bangle that has been in her family for years, Naima is desperate to find a way to help their family earn money. (Recommended for ages 7 - 12).

Serafina's dream of becoming a doctor seems almost impossible as she lives in a remote village in Haiti where her mother always needs her help at home. When Serafina's home is washed away in a flood, she fears that her dream has also disappeared. The encouragement of her friend Julie Marie, as well as the support of a woman doctor, gives Serafina courage to ask her parents if she can go to school. This haunting novel in verse is one that older children and adults alike can appreciate. (Recommended for ages 10+).

In a divided, impoverished neighborhood in Cleveland, a young Vietnamese girl decides to start a garden. All she does is plant a few bean seedlings in a vacant lot filled with garbage. Yet, it doesn't take long for other neighbors to notice and build upon what she is doing. The 13 chapters are each told by a different neighbor, and reveal the prejudices, suspicions, hopes, and talents that live in this community that the rest of the city has forgotten. (Recommended for ages 12+).

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18 Children's Books About Poverty and Hunger - The Barefoot Mommy

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As a young child, I remember being troubled by the thought that some people lived in poverty. It especially bothered me that some kids didn't have enough to eat. I'd save up my allowance and send a few dollars to world relief organizations, and wish that I could do more.