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First edition.
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Everybody Books (2nd floor Children's Area)
E SIG
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E SIG
1 available
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In this story based on the author's life, a young homeless girl finds a different kind of home in the library.
2) Stay
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Junior - Fiction (2nd floor Children's Area)
J PYR
2 available
J PYR
2 available
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First edition.
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Junior - Fiction (2nd floor Children's Area)
J PYR
2 available
J PYR
2 available
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Available Online
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Available Online
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Playaways - Junior (2nd floor Children's Area)
SMP-J PYR
1 available
SMP-J PYR
1 available
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Unabridged.
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Playaways - Junior (2nd floor Children's Area)
SMP-J PYR
1 available
SMP-J PYR
1 available
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The story of a young girl living with her family in a shelter and the homeless dog she's determined to reunite with his family.
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Junior - Fiction (2nd floor Children's Area)
J NIE
1 available
J NIE
1 available
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Twelve-year-old Felix's appearance on a television game show reveals that he and his mother have been homeless for a while, but also restores some of his faith in other people.
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Simon B. Rhymin' volume 1
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First edition.
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Junior - Fiction (2nd floor Children's Area)
J REE
1 available
J REE
1 available
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Chicago fifth-grader Simon, an aspiring rapper who lacks self-confidence, uses his rhymes to help bring his community together.
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First edition.
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Twelve-year-old Lulu, burdened with caring for her sister, Serena, since their father disappeared, must learn to trust her new friends and community when secrets and lies catch up with her.
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Everybody Books (2nd floor Children's Area)
E BUN
1 available
E BUN
1 available
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A homeless boy who lives in an airport with his father, moving from terminal to terminal and trying not to be noticed, is given hope when he sees a trapped bird find its freedom.
7) almost home
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Junior - Fiction (2nd floor Children's Area)
J LEA
1 available
J LEA
1 available
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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.
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Believing his long-absent father is missing and leaving clues behind through geocaching, Zig, thirteen, relies on his love of electronics, a garage sale GPS unit, and his best friend Gianna to search for answers.
10) Still a family
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Everybody Books (2nd floor Children's Area)
E REE
1 available
E REE
1 available
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Despite living in separate shelters, a little girl and her parents find time to be together, demonstrating that even in the most trying of times they are still a loving and committed family.
11) The great Jeff
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First edition.
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Junior - Fiction (2nd floor Children's Area)
J ABB
1 available
J ABB
1 available
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Thirteen-year-old Jeff's life spirals downward into homelessness after his alcoholic mother loses her job.
12) The can man
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Edition
First edition.
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Everybody Books (2nd floor Children's Area)
E WIL
1 available
E WIL
1 available
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After watching a homeless man collect empty soft drink cans for the redemption money, a young boy decides to collect cans himself to earn money for a skateboard until he has a change of heart.
13) Crenshaw
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Junior - Fiction (2nd floor Children's Area)
J APP
1 available
J APP
1 available
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Junior - Fiction (2nd floor Children's Area)
J APP
1 available
J APP
1 available
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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. 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?
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Junior - Fiction (2nd floor Children's Area)
J CAR
1 available
J CAR
1 available
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First Harper Trophy edition.
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Junior - Fiction (2nd floor Children's Area)
J CAR
1 available
J CAR
1 available
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An old tramp, adopted by three fatherless children when their mother hides them under a bridge on the Seine, finds a home for mother and children and a job for himself.
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Living in the family car in their small North Carolina town after their father leaves them virtually penniless, Georgina, desperate to improve their situation and unwilling to accept her overworked mother's calls for patience, persuades her younger brother to help her in an elaborate scheme to get money by stealing a dog and then claiming the reward that the owners are bound to offer.
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Everybody Books (2nd floor Children's Area)
E GUN
1 available
E GUN
1 available
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"This simple, touching picture book shows readers a women's shelter through the eyes of a young girl, who, with her mother's help, uses her imagination to overcome her anxiety and adjust. Includes factual endnotes detailing various reasons people experience homelessness and the resources available to help."--Publisher's website
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Junior - Fiction (2nd floor Children's Area)
J SAR
1 available
J SAR
1 available
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Since her father's death, Cora, twelve, longs for a permanent home for herself, her special-needs sister, and their mother while navigating middle school and studying trees using her father's field notes.
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Young Adult - Fiction (2nd floor Teen Area)
YA QUI
1 available
YA QUI
1 available
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Although seventeen-year-old Amber Appleton is homeless, living in a school bus with her unfit mother, she is a relentless optimist who visits the elderly 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.
19) Hold fast
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Playaways - Junior (2nd floor Children's Area)
SMP-J BAL
1 available
SMP-J BAL
1 available
Published
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Description
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Playaways - Junior (2nd floor Children's Area)
SMP-J BAL
1 available
SMP-J BAL
1 available
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
Edition
First edition.
Physical Description
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Junior - Fiction (2nd floor Children's Area)
J CAR
1 available
J CAR
1 available
Description
When Zoe's family has to live in their van for months after moving from California to Oregon so her father can find work, Zoe tries to keep her sixth-grade classmates from discovering that she is homeless.