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Homeless teenagers

  • Victoria
    Author:
    Goldemberg, Silvana
    Summary:

    After losing her parents, 14-year-old Victoria and her young twin brothers move in with their aunt. But shortly afterward, her aunt’s boyfriend attempts to assault her, and she runs away and learns to survive on the dangerous streets of...
  • Terminate
    Author:
    Deen, Natasha
    Summary:

    In this next installment of the high-interest Retribution series, Josie and her friends team up again to figure out why so many homeless teens are ending up in the city morgue.
  • Safe harbour
    Author:
    Kilbourne, Christina
    Summary:

    Fourteen-year-old Harbour is living in a tent in a Toronto ravine with her dog, a two-month supply of canned tuna, and an eccentric reading list. She's not homeless, she tells herself. She's merely waiting for her home - a thirty-six-...
  • Money boy
    Author:
    Yee, Paul
    Summary:

    An American Library Association Youth Media Award Stonewall Honor Book. Ray Liu knows he should be happy. He lives in a big suburban house with all the latest electronic gadgets, and even finds plenty of time to indulge in his love of...
  • It should have been you
    Author:
    Murphy, Michael
    Summary:

    After a hit-and-run driver kills David McCleary, his mother, Frieda McCleary, tells her younger son, Patrick, “It should have been you.” While the McCleary family limps along for a while, it clearly died with David. In an effort to deal...
  • Irkadura
    Author:
    Anske, Ksenia
    Summary:

    "My mama became a catfish when I was two, on the day I stopped talking." Neglected since birth by her mother, Irina Myshko hasn’t spoken a word for most of her short Soviet life. Outcast as a mute idiot and abused by her mother's...
  • Crash
    Author:
    Choyce, Lesley
    Summary:

    Just when sixteen-year-old Cameron thinks he's going to straighten out his troubled life, his parents break up and he ends up living on the street with his dog, Ozzie. He meets a girl named Mackenzie, who has been sleeping in a pup tent...
  • Box of rain : Street stories, book 3
    Author:
    Borys, Debra R.
    Summary:

    Cousins Shorty Davis and Booker T Brooks grew up in pretty much the same circumstances: single mother, too many siblings crowded into a small ghetto apartment. So what makes one kid choose violence as his method to survive living on the...
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