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61) City of orphans
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 8
Formats
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
Pub. Date
2019, c2018.
Description
"Meet Tom. Or Dr O'Grady, as he used to be called. When you pass him on the street, most people don't even give him a second glance. You see, Tom isn't living his best life. Burdened by grief, he's only got his loyal dog, Bette Davis, for company and a rucksack containing his whole world. Meet Ruth. Ruth and her son, DJ, no longer have a place to call home. Bur Ruth believes that you can change the world by helping one person at a time... and Tom...
63) Gathering Prey
Author
Formats
Description
They call them travelers. They move from city to city, panhandling, committing no crimes. And now someone is killing them. Lucas Davenport's adopted daughter, Letty, is home from college when she gets a phone call from a woman traveler named Skye, whom she'd befriended in San Francisco. The woman thinks somebody's killing her friends, and she's afraid she knows who it is. She's hiding out, and she doesn't know what to do. Letty pays for a bus ticket...
64) Firefly
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"Firefly lived in the park across from her mother's home. It was safer there. But after the bad night happens, and her baseball-bat-wielding mother is taken away, social services sends Firefly to live with her Aunt Gayle. She hardly knows Gayle, but discovers that she owns a costume shop. Yes, Firefly might be suffering from PTSD, but she can get used to taking baths, sleeping on a bed again, and wearing as many costumes as she can to school. But...
65) Born behind bars
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Description
In Chennai, india, after spending his whole life in jail with his mother, who is serving time for a crime she did not commit, nine-year-old Kabir is suddenly released and has to figure out how to survive on his own in the outside world.
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 9
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.
Author
Description
"Richard Mayhew is a young man with a good heart and an ordinary life, which is changed forever when he stops to help a girl he finds bleeding on a London sidewalk. His small act of kindess propels him into a world he never dreamed existed. There are people who fall through the cracks, and Richard has become one of them."--Container.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Formats
Description
Growing up in the shadows cast by two world wars, Annabelle has lived a mostly quiet, steady life in her small Pennsylvania town. Until the day new student Betty Glengarry walks into her class. Betty quickly reveals herself to be cruel and manipulative, and while her bullying seems isolated at first, things quickly escalate, and reclusive World War I veteran Toby becomes a target of her attacks. While others have always seen Toby's strangeness, Annabelle...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
Public defender Julia Geary's star is rising, and now she's got her first murder case defending local denizen Ray Belmar in the death of a homeless man. But Julia's professional and personal challenges are mounting. First, she's assigned an intern whose arrogance is insufferable. Then, her widowed mother-in-law, whose home Julia and her son Calvin share, announces her plans to re-marry, meaning they'll have to find a new place to live. And to top...
70) The bridge home
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Appears on list
Description
Four determined homeless children make a life for themselves in Chennai, India.
71) Winterfolk
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
For as long as she can remember, Rain's home has been among the Winterfolk, a group of homeless people living outside Seattle. When she discovers that the city plans to sweep out the Winterfolk's camp, her world is shattered.
72) Runaway
Author
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Description
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
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
Will she discover in time who she can trust? Danni Kemp fears she is being stalked--but the truth is much more deadly. Her new fiancé, Robert Evans, has a dangerous secret. The homeless man who is stalking her, Caleb Samuels, may prove to be her only escape from a hidden danger. Will she discover in time that neither Robert nor Caleb are who they appear to be and the one person she fears most may be the one person she needs to trust?
Author
Series
Fitzgerald-Trouts volume 1
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 6
Description
"The Fitzgerald-Trouts are four barely related siblings living together in a small car on a lush tropical island, but when they begin to outgrow their small vehicle, they must band together to find a new home"--
76) Ghost country
Author
Pub. Date
[1998]
Description
Luisa, a has-been opera singer; Madeleine, a homeless woman; and Mara, the rebellious granddaughter of a wealthy doctor; are drawn together in pursuit of the right to live and worship beneath a Chicago hotel where they reportedly have witnessed the Virgin Mary's blood seeping through a wall.
78) Tyrell
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 12
Description
Fifteen-year-old Tyrell, who is living in a Bronx homeless shelter with his spaced-out mother and his younger brother, tries to avoid temptation so he does not end up in jail like his father.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Description
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.
80) Hero worship
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Description
"When homeless teenager Marvin realizes his dream of working for the Core, an elite squad of costumed heroes, he discovers that the superstars he's idolized for so long aren't the people he thought they were"--