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Sorta like a rockstar
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Matthew Quick |
Although seventeen-year-old Amber Appleton is homeless, living in a school bus with her unfit mother, she is a relentless optimist who visits the elderly at a nursing home, teaches English to Korean … |
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Mr Stink
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Quentin Blake,David Walliams |
The second original, touching, twisted, and most of all hilarious novel for children by David Walliams.Mr. Stink stank. He also stunk. And if it was correct English to say he stinked, then he stinked… |
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My fabulous new life
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Sheila Greenwald |
Eleven-year-old Alison, having moved from the affluent suburbs to an apartment in New York City, tries to make new friends and come to terms with the homelessness she sees all around her. |
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Dew drop dead
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James Howe |
While setting up a homeless shelter at the church, Sebastian and his friends, Corrie and David, solve the mystery of a dead man found in an abandoned inn. |
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The Berenstain Bears help the homeless
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Jan Berenstain |
The Bear Scouts fix up an old house for Widow McBear to turn into a homeless shelter. |
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The dogs of winter
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Bobbie Pyron |
Brought to Leningrad in 1990s Russia by his mother's abusive boyfriend, five-year-old Mishka is forced by a gang of homeless children to lie and steal until he finds comfort and love with a pack of d… |
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8th grade superzero
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Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich |
After half-heartedly joining his church youth group's project at a homeless shelter near his Brooklyn middle school, eighth-grade "loser" Reggie McKnight is inspired to run for school office on a pla… |
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Shelter folks
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Virginia L. Kroll |
Joelle is embarrassed that her family has to move into a shelter, but when she gets to know the other people living there and they come to see her in a school play, she no longer feels ashamed. |
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Wolf Hollow
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Lauren Wolk |
Even Annabelle's small Pennsylvania town has been touched by the two world wars that ravaged the world, but day to day life there has been quiet until the day a new student, Betty Glengarry, comes to… |
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How to steal a dog
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Barbara O'Connor |
Living in the family car in their small North Carolina town after their father leaves them virtually penniless, Georgina, desperate to improve their situation and unwilling to accept her overworked m… |
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The long run
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Joseph Bruchac |
Travis Hawk runs away from his father and a Seattle homeless shelter to travel across the country, experiencing some bad situations and meeting some good people along his journey of survival and risk. |
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Outside In
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Sarah Ellis |
"Lynn's own life is full with choir practice, school, shopping for the perfect jeans, and dealing with her free-spirited mother. Then one day her life is saved by a mysterious girl named Blossom, who… |
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The Boxcar Children
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Dorothy Gregory,Gertrude Chandler Warner,Mike Dubisch,Shannon Eric Denton,L. Kate Deal |
Orphaned siblings Henry, Jessie, Benny, and Violet are determined not to be separated after the deaths of their parents. Fearing being sent away to live with their cruel, frightening grandfather, the… |
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Lives turned upside down
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Jim Hubbard |
Two girls and two boys, ages nine to twelve, talk about their own personal experiences with homelessness and life in shelters. |
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Good Enough To Eat
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Brock Cole |
*Once there was a poor girl who had no mama and no papa and nothing at all, not even a name.*
But then one day an Ogre comes knocking at the town’s gate, threatening to ravage the town unless the… |
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Fly
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Christopher Myers |
On the roof of his building, lonely Jawanza meets a homeless man who teaches him how to make friends with the sparrows and pigeons up there. |
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Selavi, that is life
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Youme. |
A homeless boy on the streets of Haiti joins other street children, and together they build a home and a radio station where they can care for themselves and for other homeless children. Includes se… |
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Esperanza Rising
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Pam Muñoz Ryan |
Esperanza and her mother are forced to leave their life of wealth and privilege in Mexico to go work in the labor camps of Southern California, where they must adapt to the harsh circumstances facing… |
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Fly Away Home
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Eve Bunting |
A homeless boy who lives in an airport with his father, moving from terminal to terminal and trying not to be noticed, is given hope when he sees a trapped bird find its freedom. |
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Split ends
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Jacquelin Thomas |
Preferring homelessness to living with her irresponsible mother, teenaged Kylie runs away, takes a job at a hair salon, and learns to trust God. |
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