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1) Crenshaw
Author
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"A story about a homeless boy and his imaginary friend that proves in unexpected ways that friends matter, whether real or imaginary"--
2) 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
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
202 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Fifth-grader Cally Louise Fisher stops talking, partly because her father and brother never speak of her mother who died a year earlier, but visions of her mother, friendships with a homeless man and a disabled boy, and a huge dog ensure that she still communicates.
Author
Series
The Vanderbeekers volume 4
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
As they look forward to the New York City Marathon in which their friend Mr. B. will run, the Vanderbeeker children learn that one of their good friends is homeless.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
228 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"While learning about September 11th, fifth grader Deja (born after the attacks) realizes how much the events still color her world"--
7) Hold fast
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
274 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
On a cold winter day in Chicago, Early's father disappeared, and now she, her mother and her brother have been forced to flee their apartment and join the ranks of the homeless--and it is up to Early to hold her family together and solve the mystery surrounding her father.
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Brought to Moscow in 1990s Russia by his mother's abusive boyfriend, five-year-old Mishka is forced by a gang of homeless children to lie and steal until he finds comfort and love with a pack of dogs. Includes historical note.
9) Homeless
Author
Series
Vet volunteers volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Sunita and her fellow volunteers at the Wild at Heart veterinary clinic become involved in efforts to save a bunch of feral and abandoned cats with the help of Dr. Mac.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Growing up in a rural Pennsylvania town in the aftermath of two world wars, Annabelle confronts a violent new bully and must defend a traumatized World War I veteran who is wrongly implicated in the bully's disappearance.
12) City of orphans
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 8
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.
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm
Language
English
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Description
"A day in the park with her grandfather sparks an unlikely connection between a young girl and a street musician without a home"--
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 23 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
CHRISTMAS COLLECTION. When Santa's allergies prevent him from keeping a homeless kitten, he and Mrs. Claus find it a perfect home.
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (some color) ; 23 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Julia welcomes all lost and homeless creatures into her house, whether they be cats or trolls, ghosts or dragons, but soon realizes that each must have a chore in order for the arrangement to work.
18) Cat on the bus
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Searching the city for food and shelter, a homeless cat is shooed away by several impatient people, until the cat dashes onto a bus and meets a kind man.
Author
Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
Formats
Description
NEWBERY COLLECTION. Newbery medal winner, 1996. In medieval England, a nameless, homeless girl is taken in by a sharp-tempered midwife and, in spite of obstacles and hardship, eventually gains the three things she most wants: a full belly, a contented heart, and a place in this world.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
1989, c1986, c1958
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
99 pages.
Language
English
Description
Armand, an old man living on the streets of Paris, relishes his solitary life in the beautiful city. He is happy with his carefree existence, begging and doing odd jobs to keep himself warm and fed. With simple pleasures and no cares, what more could he need?
Then one day just before Christmas, Armand returns to his favorite spot beneath the bridge to find three cold and hungry children. Although he has no interest in children, Armand soon finds...