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81) Bright lights
Author
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
When Emily's friend Amanda, a British princess, visits New York City, the girls unmask the thieves responsible for a series of jewelry and art robberies, while also helping at a benefit to raise money for homeless people.
82) Ten Mile River
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Having escaped from juvenile detention centers and foster care, two teenaged boys live on their own in an abandoned shack in a New York City park, making their way by stealing, occasionally working, and trying to keep from being arrested.
86) Lexi
Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
First American edition.
Language
English
Description
When twelve-year-old Lexi wakes up in the middle of a forest with no memory of her name or anything else, she slowly reconstructs her forgotten life with the help of some shelter workers, an ex-boxer, and her long-lost grandmother.
87) Becoming Chloe
Author
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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.
89) 33 snowfish
Author
Pub. Date
2003.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
A homeless boy, running from the police with a fifteen-year-old, drug-addicted prostitute, her boyfriend who just killed his own parents, and a baby, gets the chance to make a better life for himself.
90) The can man
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
After watching a homeless man collect empty soft drink cans for the redemption money, a young boy decides to collect cans himself to earn money for a skateboard until he has a change of heart.
91) I see you
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"A wordless picture book that depicts a homeless woman who is not seen by all the life around her, except by a little boy. Ultimately, in a gesture of compassion, this boy approaches this woman, in an exchange where he sees her and she experiences being seen"--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
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 Catholic women with the use of rhythm and blues music, and befriends a solitary Vietnam veteran and his dog, but eventually she experiences one burden more than she can bear and slips into a deep depression.
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
First American edition.
Language
English
Description
Badly injured, fourteen-year-old Blade must continue to use his exceptional "street smarts" and waning strength to outsmart dangerous thugs while he considers surrendering to the police to face the consequences of a past he has tried to forget.
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
When soldiers attack a small village in Zimbabwe, Deo goes on the run with Innocent, his older, mentally disabled brother, carrying little but a leather soccer ball filled with money, and after facing prejudice, poverty, and tragedy, it is in soccer that Deo finds renewed hope.
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
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 platform of making a real difference in the community.
Author
Pub. Date
2002.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
A number of changes are taking place in fifth-grader Aaron's life: business at the family pet shop is declining, forcing his parents to consider selling the store; luxury condominiums are going up on the land that houses a community garden, displacing the homeless woman who lives there; and Aaron gets to know his seemingly perfect classmate Sharon when she begins to tutor him in math.
99) Runaway
Author
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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.
Author
Pub. Date
1992.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Sixth-grader Liza K., one of five homeless people living in an unspoiled forest in southern Florida, searches for a missing alligator destined for official extermination and studies the delicate ecological balance keeping her outdoor home beautiful.
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