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1) Outside in
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 6
Description
"A family living secretly beneath a city reservoir changes Lynn's ideas about materialism and beauty, and about what it really means to be a friend"--From publisher description.
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
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 3
Appears on list
Description
In medieval England, a nameless, homeless girl is taken in by a sharp-tempered midwife, and in spite of obstacles and hardship, eventually gains the three things she most wants: a full belly, a contented heart, and a place in this world.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
Formats
Description
For nearly a century, Victorian London relied on "climbing boys" - orphans owned by chimney sweeps - to clean flues and protect homes from fire. The work was hard, thankless, and dangerous. Eleven-year-old Nan Sparrow is quite possibly the best climber who ever lived, and a girl. With her wits and will, she's managed to beat the deadly odds time and time again. But when Nan gets stuck in a deadly chimney fire, she fears her time has come. Instead,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
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Description
Charlotte Davis is in pieces. At seventeen she's already lost more than most people lose in a lifetime. But she's learned how to forget. The broken glass washes away the sorrow until there is nothing but calm. You don't have to think about your father and the river. Your best friend, who is gone forever. Or your mother, who has nothing left to give you. Every new scar hardens Charlie's heart just a little more, yet it still hurts so much. It hurts...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Formats
Description
In the tradition of Jon Krakauer's "Into the Wild," Rock's "My Abandonment," inspired by a true story and told through the startlingly sincere voice of his young protagonist, offers a riveting and unsettling account of a girl and her father who live off the grid.
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
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
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Description
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.
10) Stay
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Piper’s life is turned upside down when her family moves into a shelter in a whole new city. She misses her house, her friends, and her privacy—and she hates being labeled the homeless girl at her new school. But while Hope House offers her new challenges, it also brings new friendships, like the girls in Firefly Girls Troop 423 and a sweet street dog named Baby. So when Baby’s person goes missing, Piper knows she has to help. But helping means...
11) Dear Librarian
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
In this story based on the author's life, a young homeless girl finds a different kind of home in the library.
Author
Series
Sammy Keyes mysteries volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Formats
Description
Sammy continues to make life with her grandmother interesting as she tries to discover who is stealing from St. Mary's church, befriends a homeless girl, and plays in a softball tournament against a bitter rival.
13) Worse than weird
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
Description
"A story of a citywide scavenger hunt and a girl who learns that family--and weirdness--is relative."--publisher
14) Lucky strikes
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
Description
With her mama recently dead and her pa sight unseen since birth, fourteen-year-old Amelia is suddenly in charge of her younger brother and sister--and of the family gas station. Harley Blevins, local king and emperor of Standard Oil, is in hot pursuit to clinch his fuel monopoly. To keep him at bay and keep her family out of foster care, Melia must come up with a father--and fast. And so when a hobo rolls out of a passing truck, Melia grabs opportunity...
Author
Series
American girl BeForever. Kit, 1934 volume 2
American girl BeForever. Kit 1934 volume 2
A Kit classic volume 2
American girl BeForever. Kit 1934 volume 2
A Kit classic volume 2
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
"For Kit, the Depression has brought big changes: a houseful of boarders, tons of chores, and no birthday party. Then Aunt Millie arrives, and it looks as if her great ideas might turn things around for the Kittredges. But when Kit's taste for adventure gets her into trouble, she discovers that the Depression has hit a lot of people far worse than her own family. Can one girl make a difference for homeless kids--when even grownups have lost hope?"--...
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.
17) Gracie's girl
Author
Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Description
As she starts middle school, Bess volunteers to work on the school musical in hopes of fitting in, but when she and a friend get to know an elderly homeless woman, Bess changes her mind about what is really important.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"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.
Author
Series
American girl BeForever. Kit, 1934 volume 1
Kit Classic volume 1
American girl BeForever. Kit 1934 volume 1
Kit Classic volume 1
American girl BeForever. Kit 1934 volume 1
Description
"Kit Kittredge has a nose for news--but she never dreamed that the news stories about the hard times of the Depression would become her own story. First Mother's bothersome friends move in with the Kittredges. Then Dad loses his business, and Kit's family could lose their house! Things look hopeless, but a clever idea might let her family keep their home. Can Kit help pull it off?"--