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Author
Series
Vanderbeekers volume 4
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
As they look forward to the New York City Marathon in which their friend Mr. B. will run, the Vanderbeeker children learn that one of their good friends is homeless.
3) Wolf Hollow
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Twelve-year-old Annabelle must learn to stand up for what's right in the face of a manipulative and violent new bully who targets people Annabelle cares about, including a homeless World War I veteran"--
Author
Publisher
Feiwel & Friends
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Indigenous Authors: Books for Elementary Grades
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Description
Opin, his brother Emjay, and their mother live in a car and are trying to get to Los Angeles where they hope an uncle and a new life are waiting, but even after finding a stray dog, Opin's longing for a stable home intensifies as his brother's reckless ways hit a new high.
6) Crenshaw
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A story about a homeless boy and his imaginary friend that proves in unexpected ways that friends matter, whether real or imaginary"--
8) Almost home
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Sixth-grader Sugar and her mother lose their beloved house and experience the harsh world of homelessness.
Author
Language
English
Description
Living in the family car in their small North Carolina town after their father leaves them virtually penniless, Georgina, desperate to improve their situation and unwilling to accept her overworked mother's calls for patience, persuades her younger brother to help her in an elaborate scheme to get money by stealing a dog and then claiming the reward that the owners are bound to offer.
10) Born behind bars
Author
Language
English
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2021 Graded Reading Lists: Grades 5 & 6
2021-2022 Middle School TAB Nominations
Books You May have Missed 2021: Combined
TAB 2022: Williamsburg
2021-2022 Middle School TAB Nominations
Books You May have Missed 2021: Combined
TAB 2022: Williamsburg
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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.
11) Towers falling
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Description
"While learning about September 11th, fifth grader Dèja (born after the attacks) realizes how much the events still color her world"--
12) The bridge home
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
Life is harsh in Chennai's teeming streets, so when runaway sisters Viji and Rukku arrive, their prospects look grim. Very quickly, eleven-year-old Viji discovers how vulnerable they are in this uncaring, dangerous world. Fortunately, the girls find shelter--and friendship--on an abandoned bridge. With two homeless boys, Muthi and Arul, the group forms a family of sorts. And while making a living scavenging the city's trash heaps is the pits, the...
13) Fast break
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books, An Imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
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.
14) No fixed address
Author
Language
English
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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.
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Brought to Moscow in 1990s Russia by his mother's abusive boyfriend, five-year-old Mishka is forced by a gang of homeless children to lie and steal until he finds comfort and love with a pack of dogs. Includes historical note.
16) The can man
Author
Publisher
Lee & Low Books
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
After watching a homeless man collect empty soft drink cans for the redemption money, a young boy decides to collect cans himself to earn money for a skateboard until he has a change of heart.
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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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.--
18) 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?"--
19) I am a bear
Author
Publisher
Eerdmans Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A homeless bear living in a city has a hard time getting by, but when a little girl makes friends with him, his life becomes brighter.
20) Rooftoppers
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Formats
Description
When authorities threaten to take Sophie, twelve, from Charles, who's been her guardian since she was one and both survived a shipwreck, the pair go to Paris to try to find Sophie's mother, aided by Matteo and his band of "rooftoppers."
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