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21) The belle Créole
Author
Series
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"The fourteenth novel by this celebrated author centers on an enigmatic crime blamed on a homeless man whose refuge is the ship La Belle Creole, anchored just offshore the city of Port-Mahault. The young gardener Dieudonne Sabrina is acquitted in the murder of his employer--and lover--Loraine, a wealthy white woman descended from plantation owners. Conde follows Dieudonne's desperate wanderings through the city the night of his release, the narrative...
22) No place
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"When Dan and his parents can no longer pay their mortgage, they end up homeless and living in a local tent city. It's a bad situation, and it only gets worse when the leader of the tent city is brutally beaten. Who is trying to shut down the tent city, and why?"--
23) Tunnel vision
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Stubbornness has landed private eye V.I. Warshawski in big trouble at her Chicago office. With her grand old Loop building set to be razed, she's become a hold-out tenant amid frayed wiring and scary, empty corridors. Then she finds a homeless woman with three kids in the basement, and before she can rescue them, they disappear. Worst of all, she's been implicated in a murder--after the body of Deirdre Messenger, a prominent lawyer's wife, turns up...
26) Towers falling
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
While learning about September 11th, fifth grader Dèja (born after the attacks) realizes how much the events still color her world.
27) Fly away home
Author
Publisher
Clarion
Pub. Date
c1991.
Language
English
Description
A homeless boy who lives in an airport with his father, moving from terminal to terminal trying not to be noticed, is given hope when a trapped bird finally finds its freedom.
28) Holes
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Video
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
As further evidence of his family's bad fortune, which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself.
29) Great joy
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Just before Christmas, when Frances sees a sad-eyed organ grinder and his monkey performing near her apartment, she cannot stop thinking about them, wondering where they go at night, and wishing she could do something to help.
30) Still a family
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"A little girl and her parents have lost their home and must live in a homeless shelter. Even worse, due to a common shelter policy, her dad must live in a men's shelter, separated from her and her mom. Despite these circumstances, the family still finds time to be together. They meet at the park to play hide-and-seek, slide on slides, and pet puppies. While the young girl wishes for better days when her family is together again under a roof of their...
31) Room one
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
c2006.
Language
English
Description
Ted Hammond, the only sixth grader in his small Nebraska town's one-room schoolhouse, searches for clues to the disappearance of a homeless family.
34) The bridge home
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Four determined homeless children make a life for themselves in Chennai, India.
Author
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
c2011.
Language
English
Description
The author, surviving a childhood of violence and abuse, shares her journey as a homeless person, ashamed and terrified at first, but then awestruck by the extraordinary people she connected with whose stories inspired her to become an activist for the homeless community.
36) Runaway
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
After running away from her fifth foster home, Holly, a twelve-year-old orphan, travels across the country, keeping a journal of her experiences and struggle to survive.
37) Born behind bars
Author
Language
English
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Formats
Description
In Chennai, india, after spending his whole life in jail with his mother, who is serving time for a crime she did not commit, nine-year-old Kabir is suddenly released and has to figure out how to survive on his own in the outside world.
39) Saint Street
Publisher
Covenant Communications
Pub. Date
[2013].
Language
English
Description
Percy, a workaholic loses everything in a car accident, his family, job and home and left paralyzed from the waist down, homeless and live in the gritty world of misfits on Saint Street. Percy finds a second chance and redemption from the most unlikely of souls.
40) The teddy bear
Author
Publisher
Holt
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
A teddy bear, lost by the child who loves him, still feels loved after being rescued by a homeless man.
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