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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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"Giselle Burgess, a young mother of five, and her children, along with others in the shelter, become the catalyst for Troop 6000. Having worked for the Girl Scouts earlier on, Giselle knew that these girls, including her own daughters, needed something they could be a part of, where they didn't need to feel the shame or stigma of being homeless, but could instead develop skills and build a community that they could be proud of. New York Times journalist...
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Chris Gardner is an intelligent, energetic guy who can't catch a break. In the sluggish Bay Area economy of 1981, he's losing ground, by investing all his family's money in high cost bone-density scanners. His wife leaves him, he loses his apartment, and with his 5-year-old son in tow joins the ranks of the homeless, if not the hopeless. Bounced from shelter to shelter, he finds himself a single dad who has to support and care for a young child. Impressing...
84) Brooklyn Bridge
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
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In 1903 Brooklyn, fourteen-year-old Joseph Michtom's life changes for the worse when his parents, Russian immigrants, invent the teddy bear and turn their apartment into a factory, while nearby the glitter of Coney Island contrasts with the dismal lives of children dwelling under the Brooklyn Bridge.
85) No place
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Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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"When Dan and his parents can no longer pay their mortgage, they end up homeless and living in a local tent city. It's a bad situation, and it only gets worse when the leader of the tent city is brutally beaten. Who is trying to shut down the tent city, and why?"--
86) Fresh fields
Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Homeless and alone, a disturbed youth drifts between town and the Australian Outback, growing increasingly isolated and distrustful in a society lacking the means and seemingly the will to help him. He is coerced by strange voices and haunted by a history of family violence. This compelling coming-of-age novel tells Peter Kocan's own story, offering us an intimate portrait of the dark forces at work in the evolution of a loner.
87) No fixed address
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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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.
88) Runaway
Author
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
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After running away from her fifth foster home, Holly, a twelve-year-old orphan, travels across the country, keeping a journal of her experiences and struggle to survive.
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
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The true story of Nathaniel Ayers, a musician who becomes schizophrenic and homeless, and his friendship with Steve Lopez, the Los Angeles columnist who discovers and writes about him in the newspaper. When Steve Lopez see Nathaniel Ayers playing his heart out on a two-string violin on Los Angeles' Skid Row, he finds it impossible to walk away. At first, he is drawn by the opportunity to crank out another column for the Los Angeles Times, just one...
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Series
Magnus Chase y los dioses de Asgard volume 1
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Español
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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...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
Español
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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.
"Georgina está desesperada. Como su familia no puede pagar el...
93) Throwaways
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]-
Language
English
Description
Abby Palmer and Dean Logan are two broken people with one thing in common: they're both victims of a brutal government mind control experiment-- and they're the only two who escaped alive. Abby is a homeless drifter, and Dean is trying to outrun the horrors of his past when the program finds them again ... and they become the other's only chance to survive. The program gifted them both with abilities beyond a normal human's imagination-- and as Dean...
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