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• Children of the Tenements (New York and London: Macmilla, 1903), by Jacob A. Riis, illust. by C. M. Relyea (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• Ragged Dick, by Horatio Alger (Gutenberg text and audio)
• The Prince and the Pauper, by Mark Twain
  • Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and audio reading
  • HTML at americanliterature.com
• The Prince and the Pauper: A Tale for Young People of All Ages (Boston: J. R. Osgood and Co., 1882), by Mark Twain, illust. by Frank T. Merrill, John J. Harley, and Ludvig Sandöe Ipsen
  • Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and audio reading
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Prinssi ja Kerjäläispoika (The Prince and the Pauper in Finnish; Helsinki: Otava, 1908), by Mark Twain, trans. by Tyko Hagman (Gutenberg text)
• The prince and the pauper; a tale for young people of all ages. (B. Tauchnitz, 1881), by Mark Twain (page images at HathiTrust)
• Janet; or, The Christmas Stockings, by Louise Élise Gibbons (Gutenberg ebook)
• Mother-Meg; or, The Story of Dickie's Attic, by Catharine Shaw (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Ground-Ash, by Mary Russell Mitford (Gutenberg ebook)

• Faith Hope, child of the slums. (Edited and published by G.O. Tubby, 1909), by D. R. C., Gertrude Ogden Tubby, and Mail and Express Job Print (page images at HathiTrust)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The intellectual status of children who are public charges (The Science press, 1915), by John Langdon Stenquist, Edward L. Thorndike, and Marion Rex Trabue (page images at HathiTrust)
• Speech of Charles Dickens, esq. on behalf of the hospital for sick children, 49, Great Ormond Street. (Printed by Folkard and Son, 1867), by Charles Dickens (page images at HathiTrust)

• Mothers balance work and child care under welfare reform (Graduate School of Education-PACE, University of California ;, 2000), by Bruce Fuller, Sharon Lynn Kagan, Yale University. Bush Center in Child Development and Social Policy, and Policy Analysis for California Education (Organization) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Sketches of lowly life in a great city, by Michael Angelo Woolf, ed. by Joseph Henius (Gutenberg ebook)

• Mothers balance work and child care under welfare reform (Graduate School of Education-PACE, University of California ;, 2000), by Bruce Fuller, Sharon Lynn Kagan, Yale University. Bush Center in Child Development and Social Policy, and Policy Analysis for California Education (Organization) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Mecoenas studiosorum pauperum, siue causae, cur adolescentes piorum liberalitate adiuvandi sint, quos propria egestas a litterarum studiis arcet auctore quodam è Societate Iesu Theologo. (Apud Saram Mangiam Viduam, 1620), by Jakob Gretser (page images at HathiTrust)
• Early childhood programs and services for low-income families (The Office, 1999), by United States General Accounting Office (page images at HathiTrust)

• A voice in Rhama:: or, The crie of women and children. Ecchoed forth in the compassions of Peter Chamberlen, Doctour in Physick, Fellow of the Colledge of London, and one of his Majesties physicians extraordinary. (London : Printed by William Bentley: for John Marshall, and are to be sold at his shop at the Hand and Pen in Corn-hill, over against the Royall Exchange, anno Domini 1647), by Peter Chamberlen (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Mothers balance work and child care under welfare reform (Graduate School of Education-PACE, University of California ;, 2000), by Bruce Fuller, Sharon Lynn Kagan, Yale University. Bush Center in Child Development and Social Policy, and Policy Analysis for California Education (Organization) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Global Child Poverty and Well-Being: Measurement, Concepts, Policy and Action (Bristol, UK, and Chicago: Policy Press, 2012), ed. by Alberto Minujin Z. and Shailen Nandy (PDF at equityforchildren.org)

• Five Little Peppers and How They Grew, by Margaret Sidney (Gutenberg text and audio reading)
• Sue: A Little Heroine, by L. T. Meade (Gutenberg text)
• Cliff cottage picture stories. (T.Y. Crowell, 1850) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The two kinds of fear. (Dean & Son, 11, Ludgate Hill, 1857), by Dean & Son (page images at HathiTrust)
• The little beggar. (Dean & Son, 11, Ludgate Hill, 1857), by Dean & Son (page images at HathiTrust)
• J. Cole. (H. Altemus company, 1897), by Emma Gellibrand (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tale for young people of all ages (C. L. Webster and company, 1892), by Mark Twain, Jenkins & McCowan, and Charles L. Webster and Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Christmas in Austria; or, Fritzl's friends, by Frances Bartlett, illust. by Bertha Davidson Hoxie (Gutenberg ebook)
• A Pair of Them, by Evelyn Raymond, illust. by Charles Copeland (Gutenberg ebook)
• Two Prisoners, by Thomas Nelson Page, illust. by Virginia Keep (Gutenberg ebook)
• Wikkey: A Scrap, by Henrietta Vaders (Gutenberg ebook)
• Red-Robin, by Jane Abbott, illust. by Harriet Roosevelt Richards (Gutenberg ebook)
• Bel's baby (London: S.W. Partridge & Co., 1893), by Mary E Ropes (page images at Florida)
• Dot and her treasures (London: John F. Shaw and Co., 1898), by L. T. Meade, illust. by Horace Petherick and M Irwin (page images at Florida)

• A new initiative to combat child hunger : hearing before the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, One Hundred Ninth Congress, second session, September 26, 2006. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2007), by United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations (page images at HathiTrust)

• Hearing on the proposed child care regulations for the child care and development block grant and the at-risk child care program : hearing before the Subcommittee on Human Resources of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, One Hundred Second Congress, first session, hearing held in Washington, DC, October 31, 1991. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1992), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Human Resources (page images at HathiTrust)
• Investing in children : hearings before a subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, United States Senate, One Hundred Second Congress, second session, special hearings. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1992), by Health and Human Services United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Departments of Labor (page images at HathiTrust)

• Global Child Poverty and Well-Being: Measurement, Concepts, Policy and Action (Bristol, UK, and Chicago: Policy Press, 2012), ed. by Alberto Minujin Z. and Shailen Nandy (PDF at equityforchildren.org)

• New Findings on Children, Families, and Economic Self-Sufficiency: Summary of a Research Briefing (1995), ed. by Deborah A. Phillips and Anne Bridgmann (HTML with commentary at NAP)
• The crisis in homelessness effects on children and families : hearing before the Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families, House of Representatives, One hundredth Congress, first session, hearing held in Washington, DC, February 24, 1987. (U.S. G.P.O., 1987), by United States House Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families (page images at HathiTrust)
• Safety net programs are they reaching poor children? : a report of the Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families, U.S. House of Representatives, Ninety-ninth Congress, second session, together with dissenting minority views. (U.S. G.P.O., 1986), by United States House Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families (page images at HathiTrust)
• Children and families in poverty the struggle to survive : hearing before the Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families, House of Representatives, One Hundredth Congress, second session, hearing held in Washington, DC, February 25, 1988. (U.S. G.P.O., 1988), by United States House Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families (page images at HathiTrust)
• Children and families in poverty : the struggle to survive : hearing before the Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families, House of Representatives, One Hundredth Congress, second session, hearing held in Washington, DC, February 25, 1988. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1988), by United States House Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mother-only families : low earnings will keep many children in poverty (The Office, 1991), by United States General Accounting Office (page images at HathiTrust)
• "Children and families in poverty : beyond the statistics" : hearing before the Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families, House of Representatives, Ninety-ninth Congress, first session, hearing held in Washington, DC, November 6, 1985. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1986), by United States House Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families (page images at HathiTrust)
• The federal budget and the economic status of children : hearing before the Committee on the Budget, House of Representatives, One Hundred Second Congress, first session, June 26, 1991. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1991), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Budget (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historical trends in poverty and family income : hearing before the Subcommittee on Human Resources of the Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, first session, October 26, 1993. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1994), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Human Resources (page images at HathiTrust)
• Children in poverty : hearing before the Subcommittee on Public Assistance and Unemployment Compensation of the Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives, Ninety-ninth Congress, first session, May 22, 1985. (U.S. G.P.O., 1985), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Public Assistance and Unemployment Compensation (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reimbursement tiering in the CACFP : summary report to Congress on the Family Child Care Homes Legislative Changes Study (Economic Research Service, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, 2002), by William L. Hamilton, Mary Kay Crepinsek, Nancy Burstein, and United States. Dept. of Agriculture. Economic Research Service (page images at HathiTrust)
• The economic well-being of nonmetro children (U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, 1991), by Carolyn C. Rogers and United States. Department of Agriculture. Economic Research Service (page images at HathiTrust)

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