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21) Dear Librarian
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this story based on the author's life, a young homeless girl finds a different kind of home in the library.
22) Rooftoppers
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
When authorities threaten to take Sophie, twelve, from Charles who has been her guardian since she was one and both survived a shipwreck, the pair goes to Paris to try to find Sophie's mother, and they are aided by Matteo and his band of "rooftoppers."
23) Lockdown
Publisher
Uncork'd Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
When an angry mob attacks a local school believing that homeless people living there spread the deadly virus that has wiped out most of the population, one man stands between the helpless people and the mob.
25) Stay
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
Unabridged
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Piper's life is turned upside down when her family moves into a shelter in a whole new city. She misses her house, her friends, and her privacy--and she hates being labeled the homeless girl at her new school. But while Hope House offers her new challenges, it also brings new friendships, like the girls in Firefly Girls Troop 423 and a sweet street dog named Baby. So when Baby's person goes missing, Piper knows she has to help. But helping means finding...
27) Joseph
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Joseph tries to avoid trouble and keep in touch with his father, who is serving in Iraq, as he and his alcoholic, drug-addicted mother move from one homeless shelter to another.
Author
Publisher
[Manufactured and distributed by] Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2011], p2011
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
His private life shattered amid rumors of his mother's witchcraft activities, Eddie Alley leaves his Depression-era Virginia hometown to begin a television career in New York and finds the past returning years later when he offers shelter to a homeless teen.
30) No fixed address
Author
Publisher
Yearling Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Yearling edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Felix's appearance on a television game show reveals that he and his mother have been homeless for a while, but also restores some of his faith in other people.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Delight in these two hilarious, heart-warming comedies, based on the best-selling books by David Walliams. In Gangsta Granny, a little boy's dull evening with Granny turns wildly thrilling when Granny reveals her felonious alter ego. In Mr. Stink, chaos ensures when a little girl invites an odiferous homeless man and his lovable but rank Yorkshire terrier home for the holidays.
34) Dark water
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2010.
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Living in a cottage on her uncle's southern California avocado ranch since her parent's messy divorce, fifteen-year-old Pearl Dewitt meets and falls in love with an illegal migrant worker, and is trapped with him when wildfires approach his makeshift forest home.
35) Shelter
Publisher
Screen Media Films
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Hannah and Tahir fall in love while homeless on the streets of New York. Shelter explores how they got there, and as they learn about their pasts they realize they need each other to build a future.
36) Gathering prey
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"The extraordinary new Lucas Davenport thriller from #1 New York Times-bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize-winner John Sandford. They call them Travelers. They move from city to city, panhandling, committing no crimes-they just like to stay on the move. And now somebody is killing them. Lucas Davenport's adopted daughter, Letty, is home from college when she gets a phone call from a woman Traveler she'd befriended in San Francisco. The woman thinks...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
960L
Language
English
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.
39) The great Jeff
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Thirteen-year-old Jeff's life spirals downward into homelessness after his alcoholic mother loses her job.
40) Undertown
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Middle schoolers Timothy Murphy and Jessamyn Hazard careen downhill on a sailboat which was being towed through Manhattan and fall into the sewers, where they meet interesting characters before being caught by the evil "queen" of this underground society.
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