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41) Watchdog
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
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.
Author
Series
Vanderbeekers volume 4
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Description
When autumn arrives on 141st Street, the Vanderbeekers are busy helping Mr. Beiderman get ready for the New York City Marathon and making sure the mysterious person sleeping in the community garden gets enough to eat. But when they discover the true identity of the person making a home in the community garden's shed, their world turns upside down as they learn what it means to care for someone in an impossible situation.
In this fourth book in the...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
When the ugly little fir tree is taken to the city, no one wants to buy him; they prefer the big tall trees. But a homeless boy asks the shopkeeper if he can take the tree, and down by the river in a cardboard box, decorated with a few candles, the tree finds itself at the centre of a magical Christmas Eve it will never forget. A Christmas tale with a classic feel but a modern theme at its heart.
44) No place
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Description
"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?
Author
Series
Dyamonde Daniel books volume 2
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Free is excited about a local poetry contest because of its cash prize, but when he and Dyamonde befriend a classmate who is homeless and living in a shelter, they rethink what it means to be rich or poor.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Badly injured, fourteen-year-old Blade must continue to use his exceptional "street smarts" and waning strength to outsmart dangerous thugs while he considers surrendering to the police to face the consequences of a past he has tried to forget.
Author
Pub. Date
c2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Told in multiple voices, seventh-grader Libby sets off a chain of events that brings hope and encouragement to four different individuals across the country who are dealing with bullies, acceptance, homelessness, and grief.
49) Christmas soup
Author
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
When the Beenes, a family so poor that they have nothing but watery soup for their Christmas dinner, share their food with a homeless woman and child, they are all transformed by the selfless act.
50) The gypsy game
Author
Pub. Date
[1997]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Six imaginative schoolmates embark on a game in which they pretend to be gypsies, but when one of the boys runs away and takes up with a group of homeless people, the game threatens to become all too real.
51) 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
Series
Fitzgerald-Trouts volume 2
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
Description
"The Fitzgerald-Trouts must find a new place to live, while they try to protect their island from a nefarious plot masterminded by their terrible father, Johnny Trout"--
55) No ordinary day
Author
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Valli has always been afraid of the lepers living on the other side of the train tracks in the coal town of Jharia, India, so when a chance encounter with a doctor reveals she also has leprosy, Valli rejects help and begins an uncertain life on the streets.
59) 33 snowfish
Author
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Description
A homeless boy, running from the police with a fifteen-year-old, drug-addicted prostitute, her boyfriend who just killed his own parents, and a baby, gets the chance to make a better life for himself.
60) I see you
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
"A wordless picture book that depicts a homeless woman who is not seen by all the life around her, except by a little boy. Ultimately, in a gesture of compassion, this boy approaches this woman, in an exchange where he sees her and she experiences being seen"--