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1) Crenshaw
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
A story about a homeless boy and his imaginary friend that proves in unexpected ways that friends matter, whether real or imaginary.
3) Almost home
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sixth-grader Sugar and her mother lose their beloved house and experience the harsh world of homelessness.
5) Holes
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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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.
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,
...7) 33 snowfish
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
A homeless boy, running from the police with a fifteen-year-old, drug-addicted prostitute, her boyfriend who just killed his own parents, and a baby, gets the chance to make a better life for himself.
8) Fast break
Author
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.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
After a chance meeting with a stranger leads Adam Kindred to lose his home, family, friends, job, and reputation, the London police and a hired killer are after him, and Adam joins the army of the missing who live underground as he tries to sort through his life.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Maddy Donaldo, a homeless woman who has made a family of sorts in the dangerous spaces of San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, witnesses the murder of a young homeless boy and is seen by the perpetrator, her relatively stable life is upended.
16) Lottery Boy
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
A 12-year-old orphan living rough on the streets of London with his dog races to cash in a winning lottery ticket while outmaneuvering dangerous thugs who would steal it from him.
17) Becoming Chloe
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
A gay teenage boy and a fragile teenage girl meet while living on the streets of New York City and eventually decide to take a road trip across America to discover whether or not the world is a beautiful place.
19) No place
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
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?"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Robert "Cali" Callahan, seventeen, gets swept up into the private-investigator business and must deal with the ramifications of looking for fellow runaways who may not want to be found--and with falling in love with one of them.
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