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His wife and children were starving, so the black sharecropper stole a ham to feed them.

Deza Malone, the smartest girl in her class in Gary, Indiana, accompanies her mother and older brother on a trip to find her father, an African American man who left to find work after the Great Depression hit.

When her grandmother reveals that the daughter that she had given up for adoption is coming from America to visit her Vietnamese family, nine-year-old Binh is convinced that her newly-discovered aunt is wealthy and will take care of all the family's needs.

When her father is injured, fourteen-year-old Nazia is pulled away from school, her friends, and her preparations for an arranged marriage, to help her mother clean houses in a wealthy part of Karachi, Pakistan, where she finally rebels against the destiny that is planned for her.

At first dismayed at having to spend the last month of her summer vacation helping out in the household of recently widowed Mrs.

The Pepper family, including the widowed Mrs. Pepper and her five children, are happy despite their poverty, but conditions improve when they are befriended by Jasper King and his very wealthy father.

A young Negro boy learns the pain of humiliation and anger when his father is given an unjust jail sentence for stealing a ham from a white man.