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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The first cremation the homeless people held in Golden Gate Park was for a dog; their second pyre held a much larger body. To find the one responsible for these deaths, Kate Martinelli sets out on a quest for Brother Erasmus. An enigmatic creature who has befriended the homeless, he speaks only in quotations. When public fear of the peculiar band of park-dwellers threatens to grow out of control, Martinelli must unravel the guilt that lies at the...
Publisher
Echo Bridge Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
Planet Earth is in peril thanks to a rogue army of alien robots. It will be up to a small group of humans to mount a crippling counterattack. Now, Sheriff Hadley Ryan, a doctor and an ex-Marine will need to find the automatons' Achilles' heel before they succeed in annihilating civilization. This is the backstory of the alien-robot invasion that conquered Earth and forced human survivors underground.
43) Fast break
Author
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Since his mother's death, Jayson, twelve, has focused on basketball and surviving but he is found out and placed with an affluent foster family of a different race, and must learn to accept many changes, including facing his former teammates in a championship game.
44) Poverty
Author
Series
Publisher
Mason Crest
Pub. Date
c2017
Language
English
Description
Poverty affects millions of people, and the gap between rich and poor is growing. According to the United Nations, more than 1.3 billion people around the globe live in extreme poverty. This book asks what it means to be poor. If there is enough food in the world to feed everyone, why does poverty exist? How does it affect peoples’ lives, health, and education? What can be done to bring an end to poverty?
Author
Publisher
Random House/Listening Library
Pub. Date
p2010
Edition
Library ed.
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.
Author
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When living with her mother's abusive boyfriend becomes unbearable, fifteen-year-old Selina Kyle, the future Catwoman, runs away and struggles to find her own identity while living on the streets of Gotham.
47) Hold fast
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
On a cold winter day in Chicago, Early's father disappeared, and now she, her mother and her brother have been forced to flee their apartment and join the ranks of the homeless--and it is up to Early to hold her family together and solve the mystery surrounding her father.
48) Salt lane
Author
Series
Alexandra Cupidi novels volume 1
Publisher
Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First North American edition.
Language
English
Description
No-one knew their names, the bodies found in the water. There are people here, in plain sight, that no-one ever notices at all. DS Alexandra Cupidi has done it again. She should have learnt to keep her big mouth shut, after the scandal that sent her packing-- resentful teenager in tow-- from the London Met to the lonely Kent coastline. Even murder looks different in this landscape of fens, ditches and stark beaches, shadowed by the towers of Dungeness...
49) Worse than weird
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A story of a citywide scavenger hunt and a girl who learns that family--and weirdness--is relative."--publisher.
50) The bridge home
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Four determined homeless children make a life for themselves in Chennai, India.
52) Deck the hounds
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Reluctant lawyer Andy Carpenter doesn't usually stop to help others, but seeing a dog next to a homeless man inspires him to give the pair some money to help. It's just Andy's luck that things don't end there. Soon after Andy's encounter with them, man and dog are attacked in the middle of the night on the street. The dog defends its new owner, and the erstwhile attacker is bitten but escapes. But the dog is quarantined and the man, Don Carrigan,...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
In nineteenth-century England, after her father's disappearance Nan Sparrow, ten, works as a "climbing boy," aiding chimney sweeps, but when her most treasured possessions end up in a fireplace, she unwittingly creates a golem.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Ashford, Vermont, might look like your typical sleepy New England college town, but to the shadowy residents who live among the remains of its abandoned mills and factories, it's known as "Burntown." Eva Sandeski, known as "Necco" on the street, has been a part of this underworld for years, ever since the night her father Miles drowned in a flood that left her and her mother Lily homeless. A respected professor, Miles was also an inventor of...
55) Gracie's girl
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
As she starts middle school, Bess volunteers to work on the school musical in hopes of fitting in, but when she and a friend get to know an elderly homeless woman, Bess changes her mind about what is really important.
56) The soloist
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
In 2005, the only thing hurting Los Angeles Times columnist and recent bike accident victim Steve Lopez more than his banged-up face, was his pressing need for story ideas. He soon discovers Nathaniel Ayers, a skid row schizophrenic street musician, who possesses extraordinary talent - even though he only has half-broken instruments to play. Inspired by Nathaniel's story, Lopez writes an acclaimed series of articles about him and attempts to do more...
57) Watchdog
Author
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2020
Edition
Unabridged
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Orphaned and homeless, fourteen-year-old twins Vick and Tara, who is autistic, go up against a crime lord and her four-legged robotic army, with help from their robotic dog, Daisy.
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
The author offers an account of her journey from a fifteen-year-old living on the streets and eating garbage to her acceptance into Harvard, a feat that prompted a Lifetime movie and a successful motivational-speaking career.
59) City of orphans
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
540L
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
60) Little family
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A powerful novel about five young people, struggling to replace the homes they have lost with the one they have created together, from the internationally bestselling author of A Long Way Gone. Hidden away from a harsh and chaotic outside world, five young people have cobbled together a home for themselves in an abandoned airplane, a relic of their country's tumult. At seventeen, Elimane, the bookworm, is as street-smart as he is wise: the group's...
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