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2) Almost home
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
264 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
Sixth-grader Sugar and her mother lose their beloved house and experience the harsh world of homelessness.
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"Charlotte Davis is in pieces. At seventeen she's already lost more than most people do in a lifetime. But she's learned how to forget. The broken glass washes away the sorrow until there is nothing but calm. You don't have to think about your father and the river. Your best friend, who is gone forever. Or your mother, who has nothing left to give you. Every new scar hardens Charlie's heart just a little more, yet it still hurts so much. It hurts...
4) Holes
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Series
Appears on list
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.
6) Runaway
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
250 p. 21 cm.
Description
After running away from her fifth foster home, Holly, a twelve-year-old orphan, travels across the country, keeping a journal of her experiences and struggle to survive.
8) Mr. Stink
Author
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
265 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Description
After Chloe gets to know Mr. Stink, she tries to help him out by letting him live in the garden shed, but when her father also tries to hide a secret, the stage is set for an epic family confrontation.
10) Just gone
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Angelique's work at a homeless shelter takes a strange turn when she encounters seven-year-old Jamal and his fantastic stories about a mysterious character named Jacky Wacky who looks out for vulnerable children.
12) The love letters
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"Marlena Wenger, a young aunt from the Beachy Amish caring for her infant niece, finds comfort and hope from an Old Order Amish mother and her family who extend friendship to a homeless man, whose few possessions include a collection of love letters"--
14) Becoming Chloe
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
215 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
A gay teenage boy and a fragile teenage girl meet while living on the streets of New York City and eventually decide to take a road trip across America to discover whether or not the world is a beautiful place.
15) Hold fast
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On a cold winter day in Chicago, Early's father disappeared, and now she, her mother and her brother have been forced to flee their apartment and join the ranks of the homeless--and it is up to Early to hold her family together and solve the mystery surrounding her father.
Author
Series
Wanderville volume 2
Publisher
Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
247 pages ; 20 cm.
Description
"When the town sheriff discovers the exact location of 'Wanderville,' the orphans who live there--Jack, Frances, Harold, Alexander, and their new friends--must flee their home in the woods"--
17) Born behind bars
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
265 pages ; 22 cm
Description
In Chennai, india, after spending his whole life in jail with his mother, who is serving time for a crime she did not commit, nine-year-old Kabir is suddenly released and has to figure out how to survive on his own in the outside world.
18) Shelter
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
179 pages ; 22 cm
Description
While ten-year-old Maya attends an elite private school on scholarship her classmates are unaware that she and her family are living in a homeless shelter, but on one poignant day Maya discovers having a house is not the only way to have a home.
19) Great joy
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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.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
ix, 318 pages ; 25 cm
Description
An author-preferred edition of the story of Richard Mayhew, who discovers an alternate city beneath London, reconciles inconsistencies between the U.S. and U.K. versions, reinstates previously cut scenes, and incorporates the Neverwhere tale "How the Marquis Got His Coat Back."
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