Homelessness More Books - Youth

"While learning about September 11th, fifth grader Dèja (born after the attacks) realizes how much the events still color her world"--

Los mitos vikingos son reales. Los dioses de Asgard están preparándose para la gran guerra. Trols, gigantes y criaturas horrendas se entrenan para el Tagnarok, el fin del mundo. Magnus tendrá que viajar por los nuevo mundos en busca de la única arma que puede detener el Ragnarok --una espada legendaria perdida hace miles de años-- y en el camino tendrá que tomar la más dificil de las decisiones. Porque a veces, para salvarse, es necesario morir. Magnus...

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. "Georgina está desesperada. Como su familia no puede pagar el...

Phoenix and mom Nina have spent years on the road, swindling and stealing to get by. Now they've back in Mom's hometown, Jasper Hollow. The plan: bring down Ellis Bowman, the man who ruined Nina's life. After Phoenix gets caught spying, she spins a convincing story that inadvertently gives her full access to the Bowman family. Digging deeper into their secrets, she finds herself entrenched in the tale of a death and a disappearance that doesn't entirely...

"Part of the Orca Think series for middle-grade readers, this book answers the questions young people have about homelessness and its causes, effects, possible solutions and what we can all do help."--

Nine-year-old Abby McAdams grapples with changes in her home life, her body, and her perspective on the world as she navigates fourth grade.

"Fished from the river as an infant and raised by a roving band of street urchins who call themselves the Crowns, eight-year-old Duck keeps her head down and her mouth shut. It's a rollicking life, always thieving, always on the run -- until the ragtag Crowns infiltrate an abandoned cathedral in the city of Odierne and decide to set down roots. It's all part of the bold new plan hatched by the Crowns' fearless leader, Gnat: one of their very own will...

When a Connecticut teenager inherits vast wealth and an eccentric estate from the richest man in Texas, she must also live with his surviving family and solve a series of puzzles to discover how she earned her inheritance.

Two children learn from their experiences of homelessness and uncertain housing that despite their living circumstances there are aspects of their lives that remain constant.