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2) Holes
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
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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 Yelnate 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.
3) Fast break
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
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
Series
Newbery Honor Book volume 1959
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Armand is a homeless man in Paris who is taken in by a lonely little family which is also homeless. He has no use for the little "starlings" that would take over his heart, but he falls in love with them and helps them through the winter.
5) The public
Pub. Date
[2019].
Description
When a brutal blast of cold hits Cincinnati, the public library transforms from a safe haven for the homeless into a potential war zone. Those who have no place of retreat to evade the cold stage a sit-in in the library where they are tended by members of the library's staff. What begins as an act of civil disobedience becomes a stand-off with police, and a rush-to-judgment media constantly speculating about what is really happening. This David vs....
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
Over half a million people are homeless in the United States; 25% of whom are in California. Amid public outcry over the ballooning homeless population in Los Angeles, nearly 54,000 people on any given night three advocates with three different organizations show what the lost ideal of 'care in the community' looks like amid a changing policy landscape. Intensely human and humanizing, the film provides a sweeping look at the historic and current causes...
8) Crenshaw
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 3
Description
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?
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Formats
Description
"Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands is the story of Emily Shepard, a homeless teen living in an igloo made of ice and trash bags filled with frozen leaves. Half a year earlier, a nuclear plant in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom had experienced a cataclysmic meltdown, and both of Emily's parents were killed. Devastatingly, her father was in charge of the plant, and the meltdown may have been his fault. Was he drunk when it happened? Thousands of people are forced...
15) Dear Librarian
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
In this story based on the author's life, a young homeless girl finds a different kind of home in the library.
16) Gathering Prey
Author
Description
They call them travelers. They move from city to city, panhandling, committing no crimes. And now someone is killing them. Lucas Davenport's adopted daughter, Letty, is home from college when she gets a phone call from a woman traveler named Skye, whom she'd befriended in San Francisco. The woman thinks somebody's killing her friends, and she's afraid she knows who it is. She's hiding out, and she doesn't know what to do. Letty pays for a bus ticket...
Author
Series
Health watch volume no. 103
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
Year to year, homelessness continues to be a challenge facing the United States. It is estimated that on a given night in January 2016, 549,928 people were experiencing homelessness in the U.S. About 10,550 homeless individuals were located in Colorado, representing a 6 percent increase in the homeless population in Colorado from 2015. Not only are the homelessness rates rising in Colorado, but morbidity and mortality rates have also been shown to...
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