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Ginny Carter was once a rising star in TV news, married to a top anchorman, with a three-year-old son and a full and happy life in Beverly Hills -- until her whole world dissolved in a single instant on the freeway two days before Christmas. In the aftermath, she pieces her life back together and tries to find meaning in her existence as a human rights worker in the worst areas around the globe. Then, on the anniversary of the fateful accident --...
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Random House, an imprint and division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"Invisible Child follows eight dramatic years in the life of Dasani Coates, a child with an imagination as soaring as the skyscrapers near her Brooklyn homeless shelter. Born at the turn of a new century, Dasani is named for the bottled water that comes to symbolize Brooklyn's gentrification and the shared aspirations of a divided city. As Dasani grows up, moving with her tightknit family from shelter to shelter, her story reaches back to trace the...
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Phase 4 Films
Pub. Date
2013
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English
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Based on the inspirational true story of eight-year-old Zack Bonner on his quest to change the world with nothing more than a blazing spirit of philanthropy and his beat-up red wagon. When Zack sets out to help the homeless children in America in the wake of Hurricane Charley, by walking across the country, he must overcome bureaucrats and blisters and capture the hearts of his family and the entire nation.
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Matthew and Amelia were once in love and planning to raise a family together, but a decade later, they have become professional enemies. They're kept in balance only by Matthew's best and oldest friend, Ben, a rising science superstar--and Amelia's new boyfriend. But when Matthew finds himself on a desolate bridge face-to-face with a boy screaming for help, that delicate balance begins to crumble.--From publisher description.
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2Leaf Press
Pub. Date
2018
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English
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Homelessness touches every corner of our country, even the most prosperous ones. In No Vacancy: Homeless Women in Paradise, Michael E. Reid tells the story of more than five hundred women living without shelter in the affluent sea-side communities of Monterrey, Pebble Beach, and Carmel, California.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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"Thor's hammer is missing again. The thunder god has a disturbing habit of misplacing his weapon--the mightiest force in the Nine Worlds. But this time the hammer isn't just lost, it has fallen into enemy hands. If Magnus Chase and his friends can't retrieve the hammer quickly, the mortal worlds will be defenseless against an onslaught of giants. Ragnarok will begin. The Nine Worlds will burn. Unfortunately, the only person who can broker a deal for...
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Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
p2012
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English
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Twelve-year-old Crispin has lived on the streets since he was nine, with only his wits and his daring to sustain him, and only his silent dog, Harley, to call his friend. The city he roams has things unexplainable and maybe unimaginable; Crispin has seen ghosts in the dead of night, and sensed dimensions beyond reason in broad daylight. Hints of things disturbing and strange nibble at the edges of his existence.
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Vintage Español, una división de Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2016.
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IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 17
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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...
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In Avenue of Mysteries, Juan Diego--a fourteen-year-old boy, who was born and grew up in Mexico--has a thirteen-year-old sister. Her name is Lupe, and she thinks she sees what's coming--specifically, her own future and her brother's. Lupe is a mind reader; she doesn't know what everyone is thinking, but she knows what most people are thinking. Regarding what has happened, as opposed to what will, Lupe is usually right about the past; without your...
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Living in an igloo of ice and trash bags half a year after a cataclysmic nuclear disaster, Emily, convinced that she will be hated as the daughter of the drunken father who caused the meltdown, assumes a fictional identity while protecting a homeless boy.
Six months ago, a nuclear plant in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom experienced a cataclysmic meltdown, and both of Emily's parents were killed. Her father was in charge of the plant-- was he drunk when...
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Hebard Olsen
Pub. Date
c2013
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English
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Reverends Michael Reid and Kathy Whilden discuss the multidimensional issues of homelessness in Monterey County as part of a photography exhibit from the Carl Cherry Center for the Arts -"Becoming visible: the Face of Homeless Women in Monterey County".
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Aguilar
Pub. Date
2015.
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Español
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"Son niños y niñas de tres, cinco o nueve años, muchachas descalzas, adolescentes perdidos,con casa o desplazados, con ilusiones o intensamente deprimidos, son huérfanos que perdieron a sus padres por la violencia y los levantones, por tortura o asesinato. Son hijos de narcos o de policías, de trabajadores del campo o de maestros, hijos desolados de oficinistas, mecánicos, amas de casa, comerciantes...son víctimas de la violencia que carcome...
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