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• Chester Rand: or, The New Path to Fortune, by Horatio Alger (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• The Cottage and the Grange (London: Religious Tract Society, ca. 1885), by Evelyn Everett-Green
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Jessica's First Prayer (with color illustrations; London: Religious Tract Society. n.d.), by Hesba Stretton (PDF files with commentary at Roehampton)
• Little Meg's Children, by Hesba Stretton, illust. by Harold Copping (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• No Place Like Home, by Hesba Stretton (HTML at Wayback Machine)
• The Storm of Life (London: H. S. King and Co., 1876), by Hesba Stretton (multiple formats at Google)
• The Carpenter's Daughter, by Susan Warner and Anna Bartlett Warner, illust. by Edmund Evans (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Little Grey House (New York: McClure, Phillips and Co., 1904), by Marion Ames Taggart, illust. by Ethel Franklin Betts (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Minna Raymond, or, Self-Sacrifice: A Tale for the Young (London and New York: Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, 1864), by Alfred Elwes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Miss Dee Dunmore Bryant (Boston: D. Lothrop Co., c1891), by Isabella Macdonald Alden (page images at Google; US access only)
• The Pretty Sister of José (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1889), by Frances Hodgson Burnett (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Stephen, M.D. (New York: Robert Carter and Bros., c1883), by Susan Warner (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Thorny Path, by Hesba Stretton (HTML at Wayback Machine)
• Tim and His Friends (London: Religious Tract Society, ca. 1892) (page images at Florida)
• The Bishop's Shadow, by Ida Treadwell Thurston, illust. by M. Eckerson (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Julia Maitland: or, Pride Goes Before a Fall (London: Griffith and Farran; New York, E. P. Dutton and Co., 1882), by Mary Kirby and Elizabeth Kirby, illust. by John Absolon (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Little Red Shop (Boston: D. Lothrop Co., c1889), by Margaret Sidney (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Paddy O'Learey and His Learned Pig (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1895), by Elizabeth W. Champney, illust. by Frederic Dorr Steele (page images at Florida)
• Roses (New York: W. B. Ketcham, c1899), by Amy Le Feuvre, illust. by Sydney Cowell (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Try Again: or, The Trials and Triumphs of Harry West (New York: New York Book Co., 1911), by Oliver Optic (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Violet: A Fairy Story (Boston: Phillips, Sampson, and Co., 1856), by C. S. Guild (multiple formats at Google)
• The Widow O'Callaghan's Boys (10th edition, 1904), by Gulielma Zollinger (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Young Surveyor: or, Jack on the Prairies (Boston: J. R. Osgood and Co., 1875), by J. T. Trowbridge (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

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

• Understanding Changes in Poverty (Washington: World Bank Group, 2014), by Gabriela Inchauste, João Pedro Azevedo, B. Essama-Nssah, Sergio Olivieri, Trang Van Nguyen, Jaime Saavedra Chanduví, and Hernan Winkler (PDF and text with commentary at worldbank.org)
• Marginality: Addressing the Nexus of Poverty, Exclusion and Ecology (c2014), ed. by Joachim Von Braun and Franz W. Gatzweiler (multiple formats with commentary at SpringerLink)
• From Poverty to Power: How Active Citizens and Effective States Can Change the World (2008), by Duncan Green (PDF with commentary at oxfam.org)

• Growth and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2016), ed. by Channing Arndt, Andy McKay, and Finn Tarp, contrib. by World Institute for Development Economics Research (PDF with commentary at UNU Press and OUP)

• Common Wealth for the Common Good, People's Edition: A Summary of a Paper From the Australian Catholic Bishops' Conference (ACSJC occasional paper #12; North Blackburn, Vic.: Australian Catholic Social Justice Council, 1992), by Australian Catholic Bishops' Conference (PDF in Australia)

• In the Shadow of Plenty: The Biblical Blueprint for Welfare (Fort Worth, TX: Dominion Press; Nashville et al.: T. Nelson, c1986), by George Grant (PDF with commentary at garynorth.com)

• Poverty in Canada (second edition, 1996), by Christopher A. Sarlo (HTML at Fraser Institute)

• The Poorest and Hungry: Assessments, Analyses, And Actions (an IFPRI 2020 book; Washington: International Food Policy Research Institute, c2009), ed. by Joachim Von Braun, Ruth Vargas Hill, and Rajul Pandya-Lorch (at ifpri.org)
• Helping the Poor? The IMF and Low-Income Countries (2005), ed. by Jan Joost Teunissen and Age Akkerman (PDF files with commentary at fondad.org)
• Healing Wounds: How the International Agricultural Research Centers of the CGIAR Help Rebuild Agriculture in Countries Affected by Conflict and Natural Disasters (c2005), by Surendra Varma and Mark Winslow
  • illustrated HTML at cgiar.org
  • PDF at cgiar.org

• The Role of the Environment in Poverty Alleviation (New York: Fordham University Press, 2008), ed. by Paolo Galizzi and Alena Herklotz (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)

• The Lamplighter (Boston: J. P. Jewett and Co.; Cleveland: Jewett, Proctor and Worthington, 1854), by Maria S. Cummins
  • multiple formats at Google
  • HTML at Northwestern

• 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)

• Welfare, Work and Poverty: Lessons from Recent Reforms in the USA and the UK (c2000), ed. by David Smith, contrib. by John Clark, Norman Dennis, Jay Hein, and Richard Pryke (PDF at Civitas)

• The Conquest of Poverty, by Henry Hazlitt (PDF at mises.org)

• Paying the Price: Why Rich Countries Must Invest Now in a War on Poverty (in multiple languages; Oxford: Oxfam International, c2005), by Arabella Fraser (PDF files at Oxfam)

• How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1890), by Jacob A. Riis
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • illustrated HTML at Bartleby

• The Role of the Environment in Poverty Alleviation (New York: Fordham University Press, 2008), ed. by Paolo Galizzi and Alena Herklotz (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)

• HIPC Debt Relief: Myths and Reality (2004), ed. by Jan Joost Teunissen and Age Akkerman (PDF files with commentary at fondad.org)

• Common Wealth for the Common Good, People's Edition: A Summary of a Paper From the Australian Catholic Bishops' Conference (ACSJC occasional paper #12; North Blackburn, Vic.: Australian Catholic Social Justice Council, 1992), by Australian Catholic Bishops' Conference (PDF in Australia)
• Apostolic Exhortation, Evangelii Gaudium, of the Holy Father Francis, to the Bishops, Clergy, Consecrated Persons and the Lay Faithful on the Proclamation of the Gospel in Today's World (also known as "The Joy of the Gospel"; in multiple languages; 2013), by Pope Francis (HTML and PDF at the Vatican)

• Taking a Stand on Poverty (c1991), by Helen P. Rogers (Javascript-dependent HTML at Scribd)
• Racial and Ethnic Tensions in American Communities: Poverty, Inequality, and Discrimination (7 volumes; 1993-2001), by United States Commission on Civil Rights (multiple formats at archive.org, HathiTrust, and Maryland)
• No Excuses: Lessons from 21 High-Performing, High-Poverty Schools (c2000), by Samuel Casey Carter (PDF at ed.gov)
• Welfare, Work and Poverty: Lessons from Recent Reforms in the USA and the UK (c2000), ed. by David Smith, contrib. by John Clark, Norman Dennis, Jay Hein, and Richard Pryke (PDF at Civitas)

• 54 Ways You Can Help the Homeless, by Charles Kroloff (HTML at earthsystems.org)

• The Imagination of Class: Masculinity and the Victorian Urban Poor (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2006), by Daniel Bivona and Roger B. Henkle (PDF at Ohio State)
• At the Margins of the Renaissance: Lazarillo de Tormes and the Picaresque Art of Survival (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2003), by Giancarlo Maiorino (PDF at PSU)

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