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Author
Pub. Date
1992.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Sixth-grader Liza K., one of five homeless people living in an unspoiled forest in southern Florida, searches for a missing alligator destined for official extermination and studies the delicate ecological balance keeping her outdoor home beautiful.
102) No and me
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
Precocious thirteen-year-old Lou meets a homeless eighteen-year-old girl on the streets of Paris and Lou's life is forever changed.
103) Hoyos
Author
Series
Barco de vapor volume 131
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
Español
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.
104) Behind closed doors
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
In alternating chapters, teens Tasha and Josie tell how each becomes temporarily homeless and how they find strength and friendship together as they try to regain control of their lives.
105) Wanderville
Author
Series
Wanderville volume 1
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
To escape rumored terrors in Kansas, New Yorkers Jack and Frances, eleven, and Frances's brother Harold, seven, jump off an orphan train in 1899 and help new friend Alexander to build Wanderville, a safe place for homeless children.
106) I am a bear
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
English edition.
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.
107) Wanderville: 1
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
To escape rumored terrors in Kansas, New Yorkers Jack and Frances, eleven, and Frances's brother Harold, seven, jump off an orphan train in 1899 and help new friend Alexander to build Wanderville, a safe place for homeless children.
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First American edition.
Language
English
Description
Having arrived in Candeia, Brazil, starving and footsore, after walking sixteen days to fulfill his dying mother's last wishes, young Samuel takes up residence in an enormous, broken statue of Saint Anthony and finds that he can hear the prayers of the townspeople, despite his lack of faith.
110) The tooth
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Marissa loves candy--maybe a little too much. When she wakes up with a toothache, her mother takes her to the dentist. And so begins a day that Marissa will never forget. It's a trip-to-the-dentist story about so much more than brushing your teeth.
111) Still a family
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"A little girl and her parents have lost their home and must live in a homeless shelter. Even worse, due to a common shelter policy, her dad must live in a men's shelter, separated from her and her mom. Despite these circumstances, the family still finds time to be together. They meet at the park to play hide-and-seek, slide on slides, and pet puppies. While the young girl wishes for better days when her family is together again under a roof of their...
112) The old man
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
English language edition.
Language
English
Description
"Day breaks over the town. Get up, everybody! It's time to go to school. For the old man too, it's time to wake up. The night was icy and he's hungry. His name? He doesn't know..."--Publisher's website.
113) Words we don't say
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"High school junior Joel Higgins grapples with the aftermath of a tragic loss as he tries to make sense of the problems he sees all around him with the help of banned books, Winnie-the-Pooh, a field of asparagus, and many pairs of socks"--
Ever since the thing that happened, there are certain people Joel Higgins hasn't been able to talk to in person. Sure, he shows up at school, does his mandatory volunteer hours at the soup kitchen, and spends pretty...
114) The threads of magic
Author
Pub. Date
2021, ©2020.
Language
English
Description
"Pip lives by his wits in the city of Clarel. But when he picks the wrong pocket, Pip finds himself in possession of a strange dried heart in a silver casket--and those who lost it will stop at nothing to get it back. With assassins on his trail and the ominous heart beginning to whisper to him, Pip and his childlike older sister El are drawn deeper into the forbidden world of magic. Now they must seek the help of the secret witches of Clarel and...
115) The bridge home
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Four determined homeless children make a life for themselves in Chennai, India.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Twelve days of Christmas: Viewers can sing along with this holiday counting song.
Great joy: A little girl expresses her compassion for the monkey and organ grinder who perform in the cold outside her window.
The clown of God: a once-famous juggler gives a last, unforgettable, performance on Christmas Eve.
Merry Christmas, space case: Buddy McGee eagerly awaits a Christmas visit from his friend, the thing from outer space.
Sam and the lucky money:...
117) Holes
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
Youth Large Print.
Language
English
Description
"Stanley Yelnats is under a curse. A curse that began with his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather and has since followed generations of Yelnatses. Now Stanley has been unjustly sent to a boys' detention center, Camp Green Lake, where the boys build character by spending all day, every day digging holes exactly five feet wide and five feet deep. There is no lake at Camp Green Lake. But there are an awful lot of holes. It doesn't...
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