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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"This book follows the 'It Happened to Me' fictional journals of different young people who have become homeless. These stories from survivors explain what it is like to be homeless and how it happened to them. The stories and information in this book can support people who are homeless and help everyone better understand what it is like to be in this situation."--
Series
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
In this new 2022 high-definition program, learn all about the seemingly-unsolvable problem of homelessness in America. How and why do people find themselves homeless? What factors lead to this? Is there help for people living on the streets? What is the answer to ending homelessness in America? The answers to all of these questions and more are covered in depth with detailed graphics, diagrams, and videos that reinforce important concepts.
9) Holes
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
As further evidence of his family's bad fortune which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself.
10) The teddy bear
Author
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
A teddy bear, lost by the little boy who loves him, still feels loved after being rescued by a homeless man.
11) Homeless youth
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Discusses why young people become homeless in the United States, how they live, and what can be done to help them.
12) Room one
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ted Hammond, the only sixth grader in his small Nebraska town's one-room schoolhouse, searches for clues to the disappearance of a homeless family. Ted Hammond loves a good mystery, and in the spring of his fifth-grade year, he's working on a big one. How can his school in the little town of Plattsford stay open next year if there are going to be only five students? Out here on the Great Plains in western Nebraska, everyone understands that if you...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"There are 150 million people experiencing homelessness worldwide, and that number is increasing every year. Homelessness is not a choice, yet it exists in almost every community. But why are people homeless? Who are they? What can you do? In Shelter: Homelessness in Our Community, readers will get answers to these complex questions. They'll learn about the root causes of homelessness and its effects, and what people and organizations around the world...
14) The great Jeff
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Jeff's life spirals downward into homelessness after his alcoholic mother loses her job.
15) Still a family
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"A little girl and her parents have lost their home and must live in a homeless shelter. Even worse, due to a common shelter policy, her dad must live in a men's shelter, separated from her and her mom. Despite these circumstances, the family still finds time to be together. They meet at the park to play hide-and-seek, slide on slides, and pet puppies. While the young girl wishes for better days when her family is together again under a roof of their...
16) Great joy
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Just before Christmas, when Frances sees a sad-eyed organ grinder and his monkey performing near her apartment, she cannot stop thinking about them, wondering where they go at night, and wishing she could do something to help.
17) No ordinary day
Author
Pub. Date
©2011
Language
English
Description
Valli has always been afraid of the lepers living on the other side of the train tracks in the coal town of Jharia, India, so when a chance encounter with a doctor reveals she also has leprosy, Valli rejects help and begins an uncertain life on the streets.
18) Undertown
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Middle schoolers Timothy Murphy and Jessamyn Hazard careen downhill on a sailboat which was being towed through Manhattan and fall into the sewers, where they meet interesting characters before being caught by the evil "queen" of this underground society.
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