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In the city where they lived, homeless people were invisible to Chelsea and Leo Wellington, until they met Agnes. Agnes had been a teacher and, like Chelsea and Leo, she loved to study bugs. However, then she got sick. She lost her job, her home, and her dreams. Agnes helps Chelsea and Leo solve a problem. Can they find a way to help her?
2) Where I live
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IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
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Lindon Rose is homeless and secretly living in her high school, a secret shared only by her two best friends. But when Bea, the popular mean girl, becomes a victim of violence, Linden knows that she has the ability to stop the abuse by telling Bea's story, even if it means exposing her own situation.
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"For forty-seven days in 1999, Phyllis Cole-Dai and James Murray lived by choice on the streets of Columbus, Ohio, the nation's fifteenth-largest city. They went to the streets to practice presence: to offer nonjudgmental attention and compassion to everyone they met, especially the chronically homeless, who are so often ignored, scorned, abused, or shunned. 'The Emptiness of Our Hands,' now in its third edition, is a meditative chronicle of their...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 1
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Becoming homeless happens-but how does it feel when it happens to you? Being homeless is a devastating and life-changing experience that happens to thousands of young people every year. Discover what it is like to be made homeless through the heartfelt stories of survivors. Learn how it "happened to them," read their journeys out of homelessness, and find out more about what causes people to become homeless in this open, sensitive, and informative...
10) Bobby's story
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
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Bobby tries to get his classmates to take an interest in homelessness, but they are all distracted by their own activities, so he features the problem in one of his popular comic books.
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"Short Stories in a Long Journey is Richard R. Troxell's chronicle of 40 years of tenaciously advocating for the men, women and children experiencing homelessness. Once a homeless vet, Richard has been a leader in the charge to defeat the national disgrace we call homelessness. This book brings specific and viable solutions in the name of justice and with dignity and fairness for all"--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
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Jack's mom is gone, leaving him all alone on a campsite in Maine. Can he find his way back to Boston before the authorities realize what happened?
(Ages 10-14)
Ever since Jack can remember, his mom has been unpredictable, sometimes loving and fun, other times caught in a whirlwind of energy and "spinning" wildly until it's over. But Jack never thought his mom would take off during the night and leave him at a campground in Acadia National
14) Winterfolk
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For as long as she can remember, Rain's home has been among the Winterfolk, a group of homeless people living outside Seattle. When she discovers that the city plans to sweep out the Winterfolk's camp, her world is shattered.
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In this empathetic tale of hope, understanding, and the importance of family, young readers confront the difficult issues of poverty and the hardships of homelessness. Its inspiring young heroine is Ivy, who finds herself homeless on the streets of San Francisco when she and her father, Poppy, are evicted from their artist loft.
Struggling to survive day to day, Ivy and Poppy befriend a dog who leads them to the ramshackle home of octogenarian siblings,...
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When jaded oil tycoon Nick Rudolph discovers a homeless Myla Howell and her two children on a cold winter night, even this self-proclaimed nonbeliever knows that this is no way to spend Christmas. So he takes the brood under his wing--and the ragamuffin family miraculously captures his secretly lonely heart. Neither he nor Myla can deny there is an attraction, but both have too much pride to admit they need one another. Will God's loving grace show...
18) Copia
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"Started as a VQR documentary-project, Copia examines the now-bankrupt city of Detroit, once the thriving heart of the American Dream. "--
"This is a volume of original American poetry"--
19) Crenshaw
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 3
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Jackson and his family have fallen on hard times. There's no more money for rent. And not much for food, either. His parents, his little sister, and their dog may have to live in their minivan. Again. Crenshaw is a cat. He's large, he's outspoken, and he's imaginary. He has come back into Jackson's life to help him. But is an imaginary friend enough to save this family from losing everything?