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Author
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this imaginative debut, the tale of Noah’s Ark is brilliantly recast as a story of fate and family, set in a near-future London.
Over the course of a single night in 2052, a homeless man named Cuthbert Handley sets out on an astonishing quest: to release the animals of the London Zoo. When he was a young boy, Cuthbert’s grandmother had told him he inherited a magical ability to communicate with the animal world—a gift
...2) Almost home
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sixth-grader Sugar and her mother lose their beloved house and experience the harsh world of homelessness.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
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.
6) Fast break
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Since his mother's death, Jayson, twelve, has focused on basketball and surviving but he is found out and placed with an affluent foster family of a different race, and must learn to accept many changes, including facing his former teammates in a championship game.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
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
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Robert "Cali" Callahan, seventeen, gets swept up into the private-investigator business and must deal with the ramifications of looking for fellow runaways who may not want to be found--and with falling in love with one of them.
10) Hold fast
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
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.
11) Born behind bars
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
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
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
Unabridged
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
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.
13) Reliquary
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lieutenant D'Agosta of the New York police and anthropologist Margo Green team up with the Navy's special forces to destroy monsters roaming New York's subterranean world--sewers, tunnels--killing the homeless to eat their brains, the monsters' staple food. By the author of Relic.
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Unabridged
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Georgina, who lives with her family in their car after their father leaves, persuades her younger brother to help her in a scheme to get money by stealing a dog and claiming the reward that the owners are bound to offer.
15) Holes
Publisher
Disney
Pub. Date
©2003
Edition
Standard format.
Language
English
Description
An unlucky boy goes from loser to hero when he beats the odds--and solves a mystery--at Camp Green Lake, a detention center where he is forced to dig holes every day.
16) Worse than weird
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2020
Edition
Unabridged
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"A story of a citywide scavenger hunt and a girl who learns that family--and weirdness--is relative."--publisher.
17) The love letters
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Marlena Wenger, a young aunt from the Beachy Amish caring for her infant niece, finds comfort and hope from an Old Order Amish mother and her family who extend friendship to a homeless man, whose few possessions include a collection of love letters"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
The first cremation the homeless people held in Golden Gate Park was for a dog; their second pyre held a much larger body. To find the one responsible for these deaths, Kate Martinelli sets out on a quest for Brother Erasmus. An enigmatic creature who has befriended the homeless, he speaks only in quotations. When public fear of the peculiar band of park-dwellers threatens to grow out of control, Martinelli must unravel the guilt that lies at the...
20) Watchdog
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Orphaned and homeless, fourteen-year-old twins Vick and Tara, who is autistic, go up against a crime lord and her four-legged robotic army, with help from their robotic dog, Daisy.
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