Eight-year-old Gideon Mercer loves to help people, but she has leukemia. When her illness goes into remission at Christmas, she is sure this miracle is a gift from God. So to celebrate, she and her father volunteer to serve meals at a...
Homeless persons
- Author:Kingsbury, KarenSummary:
- Author:Pierre CussonSummary:
Ce qui, au départ, se voulait n'être qu'un jeu pour Frédéric Poirier et sa bande, se transforme rapidement en cauchemar alors que les choses tournent mal sur le terrain de la foire de Belleville. La population est en...
- Author:Thistle, JesseSummary:
In this extraordinary and inspiring debut memoir, Jesse Thistle, once a high school dropout and now a rising Indigenous scholar, chronicles his life on the streets and how he overcame trauma and addiction to discover the truth about who...
- Author:Dowding, PhilippaSummary:
Firefly lived in the park across from her mother’s home. It was safer there. But after the bad night happens, and her baseball-bat-wielding mother is taken away, social services sends Firefly to live with her Aunt Gayle. She hardly...
- Author:Harris, JaneSummary:
In 2013, a violent crime left Jane Harris seriously injured and tumbling down the social ladder toward homelessness -- for the second time in her life -- leading her to question the underlying conditions that could allow this to happen...
- Author:Ernest, PhillipSummary:
Young and homeless on the streets of Toronto, a fugitive from an unquiet past that has followed him from his hometown in Northern Ontario, Benjamin Doheney is sustained by unusual sources of strength: his devotion to Sanskrit, the...
- Author:Hahn, Mary DowningSummary:
Fourteen-year-old Kelly tries to befriend Mr. Weems, a disturbed, homeless Vietnam War veteran who spends his days in her suburban library, though the man makes it clear he wants to be left alone.
- Author:Schraff, AnneSummary:
Written for young adults, the Urban Underground series confronts issues that are of great importance to teens, such as friendship, loyalty, drugs, gangs, abuse, urban blight, bullies and self-esteem to name a few. More than...
- Author:Moya, Horacio CastellanosSummary:
As El Salvador returns to peace after more than a decade of civil war, Eduardo Sosa, an unemployed sociologist, becomes fascinated by a homeless man who lives in a beat-up yellow Chevrolet parked across the street from his sister's...
- Author:AviSummary:
In 1893 New York, thirteen-year-old Maks, a newsboy, teams up with Willa, a homeless girl, to clear his older sister, Emma, from charges that she stole from the brand new Waldorf Hotel, where she works. Includes historical notes.
- Author:Belcamino, KristiSummary:
Nikki Black finds herself homeless and wandering the streets of Los Angeles when she begins to uncover a sinister cover-up that endangers herself and others.
- Author:Brook, AllisonSummary:
Librarian Carrie Singleton is building a haven, but one of her neighbors is misbehavin'. Can resident spirit Evelyn help Carrie catch the culprit who made her a ghost?
- Author:Murray, LizSummary:
A story of how a young women, born into a world without hope, used every ounce of strength and determination to steer herself towards a brighter future.
- Author:Venkatraman, PadmaSummary:
“Venkatraman has never met a heavy theme she did not like....Borrowing elements of fable, it's told with a recurring sense of awe by a boy whom the world, for most of his life, has existed only in stories.”— New York Times Book...
- Author:Brooks, MarthaSummary:
The car lurches to a halt. The old man finally rolls down his window, studies Laker for one eternal moment while his daughter, behind the steering wheel, fumes and listens to the radio. Laker stands, shrunken and zipped and snapped and...
- Author:Bauer, JoanSummary:
Sixth-grader Sugar and her mother lose their beloved house and experience the harsh world of homelessness. They move to Chicago to make a fresh start, but when Sugar's mother has a serious breakdown, Sugar and her beloved dog are...
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