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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Erik is homeless Erik is homeless Keith Elliot Greenberg A photographic essay about a nine-year-old boy who is homeless in New York City. OL14919450W
Maggie and Oliver, or, A bone of one's own Maggie and Oliver, or, A bone of one's own Valerie Hobbs A dog whose beloved owner has died and an orphaned ten-year-old girl find each other while enduring poverty and homelessness in early-twentieth-century Boston. OL16528522W
Living Rough Living Rough Cristy Watson great OL17479134W
The Heart Goes Last The Heart Goes Last Margaret Atwood "Stan and Charmaine are a married couple trying to stay afloat in the midst of an economic and social collapse. Job loss has forced them to live in their car, leaving them vulnerable to roving gangs.… OL17569713W
Pieces of me Pieces of me Darlene Ryan Maddie is living on the streets, trying to protect herself and make enough money to get a place to stay and find a way to go back to school. When she meets Q, she is wary but welcomes his friendship.… OL17885383W
Home Home Michael J. Rosen,Franz Brandenberg Thirteen authors and seventeen illustrators celebrate the places and things that make up the home, in support of Share Our Strength's (SOS) fight against homelessness. Thirteen authors and 17 illust… OL19681467W
Everlasting Nora Everlasting Nora Marie Miranda Cruz After a family tragedy results in the loss of both father and home, twelve-year-old Nora lives with her mother in Manila s North Cemetery, which is the largest shantytown of its kind in the Philippin… OL19754647W
Encyclopedia of homelessness Encyclopedia of homelessness David Levinson "The first comprehensive resource on this important topic, this set covers the origins of homelessness, current research, and strategies for its prevention. The contributors represent such discipline… OL19847185W
Unbeliever Unbeliever Robert Swindells Annabel is stunned when her father joins a fundamentalist religious sect and when he begins to practise their rigid ideas at home, the strain on the family is terrible. Then she starts to feel that t… OL24857287W
The fight against homelessness The fight against homelessness Margaret Fagan Examines the rising social cost of homelessness, those who are most vulnerable, and their experiences. OL4440884W
Walking on air Walking on air Kelly Easton In 1931, a young girl travels around the country performing on a tightrope during revival meetings held by her father, and seeking her own answers about God, her family, and her life of poverty and h… OL5836238W
Crow call Crow call Mike Henson 88 pages ; 22 cm OL9646507W