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1) Holes
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
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
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Marlena Wenger, a young aunt from the Beachy Amish caring for her infant niece, finds comfort and hope from an Old Order Amish mother and her family who extend friendship to a homeless man, whose few possessions include a collection of love letters"--
3) Crenshaw
Author
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A story about a homeless boy and his imaginary friend that proves in unexpected ways that friends matter, whether real or imaginary"--
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, turns...
5) Wolf Hollow
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Twelve-year-old Annabelle must learn to stand up for what's right in the face of a manipulative and violent new bully who targets people Annabelle cares about, including a homeless World War I veteran"--
Author
Publisher
Milkweed Editions
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
This fable-like novella about a homeless boy's quest to make it to the beach offers "a darkly poetic, masterfully crafted view of life on the streets" (Publishers Weekly).
From the celebrated author of The Cat: Or, How I Lost Eternity comes a tale of adventure, suspense, and friendship. Cosmos and Niner have adapted to being homeless, but they decide to set out on a journey to the beach where they can enjoy the summer weather year-round. Their...
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Upon seeing a poster for a bike race, Tomas goes in search of a bike he can use. When he meets Miles, who has an old bike they can fix up, the two boys become friends. Miles, however, never reveals where he lives and Tomas begins to suspect that he is keeping a secret.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
Michael was a rising star at Drake and Sweeney until a violent encounter with a homeless man stopped him cold. Michael survived but his assailant did not. He did some digging and found that the man was a deranged Vietnam veteran with a connection to Drake and Sweeney. Michael bolts the firm, with a top-secret document and becomes an advocate for the homeless...and a thief.
10) Hero Worship
Author
Publisher
Flux
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Marvin Maywood only wants one thing in life-to join the heroes of the Core. But he can't follow his dream because his powers are fed by fear, which is against the Core's standards. So he lives on the streets and watches the elite team of costumed crime fighters from afar. After Marvin performs an illegal act of heroism, he meets Roisin, one of the Core's heroes, and it seems like his chance to join the team has finally come. As she guides him through...
11) The bridge home
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Four determined homeless children make a life for themselves in Chennai, India.
12) Pretty baby
Author
Language
English
Description
She sees the teenage girl on the train platform, standing in the pouring rain, clutching an infant in her arms. She boards a train and is whisked away. But she can't get the girl out of her head... Heidi Wood has always been a charitable woman: she works for a nonprofit, takes in stray cats. Still, her husband and daughter are horrified when Heidi returns home one day with a young woman named Willow and her four-month-old baby in tow. Disheveled and...
13) Born behind bars
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Chennai, india, after spending his whole life in jail with his mother, who is serving time for a crime she did not commit, nine-year-old Kabir is suddenly released and has to figure out how to survive on his own in the outside world.
14) Almost home
Author
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.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
In nineteenth-century England, after her father's disappearance Nan Sparrow, ten, works as a "climbing boy," aiding chimney sweeps, but when her most treasured possessions end up in a fireplace, she unwittingly creates a golem.--
Author
Series
Magnus Chase and the gods of Asgard volume 2
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the god of thunder's hammer goes missing, Magnus Chase and his friends are tasked with retrieving it before an onslaught of giants attacks the mortal world.
Author
Series
Robin Lockwood novels volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In A Matter of Life and Death, an indigent man has been set up for the brutal murder of the wealthy wife of a prominent judge in New York Times bestseller Phillip Margolin's latest legal thriller featuring Robin Lockwood. Joe Lattimore, homeless and trying desperately to provide for his young family, agrees to fight in a no-holds-barred fight, only to have his opponent die. Lattimore now finds himself at the mercy of the fight's organizers who blackmail...
18) The way it works
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Walter Davis is homeless after his mother's death, and he meets the girl of his dreams and tries to keep his circumstances from her.
19) Monkey island
Author
Pub. Date
1991
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Forced to live on the streets of New York after his mother disappears from their hotel room, eleven-year-old Clay is befriended by two men who help him survive.
20) Fast break
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
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.
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