Three teens live in the Walled City, a lawless labyrinth run by crime lords and street gangs. When Dai offers Jin a chance to find her lost sister, she begins a breathtaking race to escape the city itself.
Street children
-
Author:Graudin, RyanSummary: -
Author:FUNKE, Cornelia CarolineSummary:Two orphaned brothers are on the run, hiding among the crumbling canals and misty alleyways of Venice. The brothers' freedom is threatened by a bungling detective hired by their aunt. They find shelter in an old, disused cinema...
-
Author:Roy, AnusreeSummary:When young orphans Mala and Chun Chun encounter brothers Prakash and Ojha on the busy streets of Kolkata, they are immediately at odds. The brothers come from a lower-middle-class family and spend their time flying kites instead of...
-
Author:Lohans, AlisonSummary:Sisters Jennifer and Sarah were once part of a happy, stable family, but their idyllic life comes to an abrupt halt with the death of their mother. Unable to cope with his grief and the needs of his two young daughters, their father...
-
Author:Bond, CathiSummary:When tragedy strikes, thirteen-year-old Maddy Barnes's life shatters. Torn from her family and village, she finds herself out on the mean streets of Toronto in the 1970s, a gritty twilight world of street kids, speed freaks, glam...
-
Author:Ellis, DeborahSummary:The third book in the internationally-bestselling series that includes The Breadwinner, Mud City and My Name Is Parvana. Parvana’s best friend, Shauzia, has escaped the misery of her life in Kabul, only to end up in a refugee camp in...
-
Author:Easley, Warren C.Summary:Cal Claxton is determined to reinvent himself as a small town lawyer in the aftermath of his wife’s suicide. Once a hardcharging L.A. prosecutor, he now lives in an old farmhouse overlooking the Oregon wine country. When a scruffy,...
-
Author:Robinson, MarilynneSummary:Lila, homeless and alone after years of roaming the countryside, steps inside a small-town Iowa church -- the only available shelter from the rain -- and ignites a romance and a debate that will reshape her life. She becomes the wife of...
- Author:Lee, SungjuSummary:
Every Falling Star , the first book to portray contemporary North Korea to a young audience, is the intense memoir of a North Korean boy named Sungju who is forced at age twelve to live on the streets and fend for himself.
- Author:Shors, JohnSummary:
When Iris' father, a Vietnam vet, makes a dying wish that she take over the operation of a shelter for street children in Ho Chi Minh City, she agrees--and takes with her her long-time friend Noah, an Iraq War veteran.
- Author:Banks, SydneySummary:
Liza, an orphan girl living on the cold streets of London in 1834, is able to rise above her squalid surroundings to bring joy to the lives of others. Although only 11, she displays amazing courage as she cares for a younger child and...
-
Author:Graziani, E.Summary:Faith Emily Hansen just wants to be loved and to live without the weight of addiction. But the relief that she gets from being wrapped up in the cozy little cotton ball of heroin is impossible to ignore. Faith’s story starts in her...
- 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...
