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Author
Series
A Chet and Bernie mystery volume 13
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Spencer Quinn's Bark to the Future continues the adventurous New York Times and USA Today bestselling series that Stephen King calls "without a doubt the most original mystery series currently available." When Chet the dog, "the most lovable narrator in all of crime fiction" (Boston Globe), and his human partner, PI Bernie Little, are approached by down-and-out older man with a cardboard sign at an exit ramp, Bernie is shocked to discover the man...
4) Almost home
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
264 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sixth-grader Sugar and her mother lose their beloved house and experience the harsh world of homelessness.
5) Holes
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
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.
7) Lila
Author
Series
Gilead volume 3
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Abandoning her homeless existence to become a minister's wife, Lila reflects on her hardscrabble life on the run with a canny young drifter and her efforts to reconcile her painful past with her husband's gentle Christian worldview.
8) Great joy
Author
Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 30 cm.
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.
10) The coat
Author
Series
Publisher
Flyaway Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First English edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
"After receiving a perfect red coat from her sister, Elise gives her prized jacket to a child experiencing homelessness and discovers the joy of helping others"--
11) Shelter
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
179 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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.
13) Gathering Prey
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
When his adopted daughter's friend reports that someone has been killing off a circle of nomadic panhandlers, Lucas travels to North Dakota, where he encounters a dangerously violent subculture.
14) Rough sleepers
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"When he graduated from Harvard Medical School, Jim O'Connell was asked by the medical school Dean to spend one year setting up a program to care for the homeless population in Boston. It became Jim O'Connell's life calling, to help people known as "rough sleepers." For the past three decades, Dr. O'Connell has run the Boston Healthcare for the Homeless Program, which he helped to create. Affiliated with Massachusetts General Hospital, the program...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
168 p.: ill.; 22 cm.
Language
English
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.
16) Tunnel vision
Author
Series
V. I. Warshawski volume 8
Publisher
Hodder
Pub. Date
1994.
Physical Desc
482 pages; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Private investigator V.I. Warshawski probes the world of abused women, runaway children and the homeless to find a killer. In the process she uncovers a financial fraud with links to Chicago banks and the university, forcing her to take on the city's establishment.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
170 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
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 mother's calls for patience, persuades her younger brother to help her in an elaborate scheme to get money by stealing a dog and then claiming the reward that the owners are bound to offer.
18) The bridge home
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Four determined homeless children make a life for themselves in Chennai, India.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
The author recalls her life growing up in a dysfunctional family with an alcoholic father and distant mother and describes how she and her siblings had to fend for themselves until they finally found the resources and will to leave home.
Author
Publisher
Dey Street Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
vi, 329 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Documents the photojournalist author's thirty-year friendship with former NFL star Jackie Wallace, describing the losses and addiction that led the truee-time Super Bowl star to homelessness on the streets of New Orldans.
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