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1) Pretty baby
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Things go dangerously wrong when a middle-class wife and mother impulsively opens her home to a homeless teen and her tiny baby.
Author
Series
Dyamonde Daniel books volume 2
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Free is excited about a local poetry contest because of its cash prize, but when he and Dyamonde befriend a classmate who is homeless and living in a shelter, they rethink what it means to be rich or poor.
8) Stay
Author
Language
English
Description
Piper's life is turned upside down when her family moves into a shelter in a whole new city. She misses her house, her friends, and her privacy--and she hates being labeled the homeless girl at her new school. But while Hope House offers her new challenges, it also brings new friendships, like the girls in Firefly Girls Troop 423 and a sweet street dog named Baby. So when Baby's person goes missing, Piper knows she has to help. But helping means finding...
Author
Series
Rachel Alexander and Dash mysteries volume 9
Publisher
William Morrow/Harper Collins
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
A lifelong New Yorker, Private Investigator Rachel Alexander has lived through some rough times-from 9/11, to a difficult divorce, to cases that have taken her to the depths of the city's dark underbelly. But when wealthy business owner Eleanor Redstone approaches Rachel to ask if she can investigate her father's murder-a brutal slaying that occurred when he was pushed onto the subway tracks-Rachel takes the case, plunging herself into parts of the...
11) Towers falling
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"While learning about September 11th, fifth grader D�eja (born after the attacks) realizes how much the events still color her world"--
12) Great joy
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
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.
13) Holes
Author
Series
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.
Author
Publisher
Feiwel & Friends
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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.
15) City of orphans
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
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.
16) Fast break
Author
Publisher
Puffin Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
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.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2007.
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.
19) Take out
Author
Series
Sigrid Harald mysteries volume 9
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing, Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Sigrid is still reeling from the untimely death of her lover, acclaimed painter Oscar Nauman, when she is called to investigate the deaths of two homeless men in the West Village. The police at first assume an overdose, until they realize that one of the men shows no signs of drug use. Then when containers of poisoned takeout food are found nearby, Sigrid's case is suddenly much more complicated. As Sigrid investigates, she uncovers an intriguing...
20) Tyrell
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2007, 2005
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Tyrell, who is living in a Bronx homeless shelter with his spaced-out mother and his younger brother, tries to avoid temptation so he does not end up in jail like his father.
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