Sixth-grader Sugar and her mother lose their beloved house and experience the harsh world of homelessness.
(Juvenile Fiction - J Bauer)
(Young Adult - Y Yee)
Young immigrant Ray Liu is struggling to adjust to North American life. When his father discovers Ray has been cruising gay websites, the teen is kicked out of the family home. He heads to downtown Toronto, where the harsh reality of street life hits him.
(Young Adult - Y Burgess)
After running away from their troubled homes, two English teenagers move in with a group of squatters in the port city of Bristol and try to find ways to support their growing addiction to heroin.
(Young Adult - Y Hopkins)
After the death of her abusive father and loss of her beloved Ethan and their unborn child, Pattyn runs away, desperately seeking peace, as her younger sister, a sophomore in high school, also tries to put the pieces of her life back together.
(Young Adult - Y Quick)
Although 17-year-old Amber Appleton is experiencing homelessness, living in a school bus with her unfit mother, she is a relentless optimist who visits older adults at a nursing home, teaches English to Korean Catholic women with the use of rhythm and blues music, and befriends a solitary Vietnam veteran and his dog, but eventually she experiences one burden more than she can bear and slips into a deep depression.
(Young Adult - Y Kolby)
For as long as she can remember, Rain's home has been among the Winterfolk, a group of people experiencing homelessness living outside Seattle. When she discovers that the city plans to sweep out the Winterfolk's camp, her world is shattered.
Nonfiction Resources
(Adult Nonfiction - 362.7 Chr)
The touching and revealing first-person account of the remarkable work of Dr. Randy Christensen. Trained as a pediatrician, he works not in a typical hospital setting but, rather, in a 38-foot Winnebago that has been refitted as a doctor's office on wheels. His patients are adolescents and children experiencing homelessness and living on the outskirts of Phoenix.
(Adult Nonfiction - 305.5692 Bur)
Now that there are more people experiencing homelessness in the US than at anytime since the Great Depression, writer and filmmaker Burch looks at the lives and hopes of a group of young people who have left their homes all over the country to come to Berkeley, California. She also reprints an anonymous pamphlet on how to put abandoned buildings to use.