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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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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...
2) Holes
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
As further evidence of his family's bad fortune which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself.
3) Hoyos
Author
Publisher
Ediciones SM
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
Español
Author
Language
Español
Description
"Neverwhere" cuenta la historia de Richard Mayhew, un joven londinense con una vida ordinaria que cambia para siempre cuando se sumerge a través de los intersticios de la realidad en el subsuelo de Londres. Allí, como debajo de cada gran ciudad, existe un mundo desconocido e invisible, plagado de seres extraños, en el que sobrevivir dependerá de abrir las puertas adecuadas.
After he helps a stranger on a London sidewalk, Richard Mayhew discovers...
8) December
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A homeless family's luck changes after they help an old woman who has even less than they do at Christmas.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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.
10) Becoming Chloe
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
A gay teenage boy and a fragile teenage girl meet while living on the streets of New York City and eventually decide to take a road trip across America to discover whether or not the world is a beautiful place.
12) Tyrell
Author
Publisher
PUSH
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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.
15) To play the fool
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
Description
In San Francisco, lesbian police officer Kate Martinelli investigates the death of a homeless man. The prime suspect is Brother Erasmus, another homeless man, but getting him to talk is difficult because he only speaks in quotations. By the author of A Grave Talent.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
In alternating chapters, teens Tasha and Josie tell how each becomes temporarily homeless and how they find strength and friendship together as they try to regain control of their lives.
17) Gracie's girl
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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.
18) Ten Mile River
Author
Publisher
Dial Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Having escaped from juvenile detention centers and foster care, two teenaged boys live on their own in an abandoned shack in a New York City park, making their way by stealing, occasionally working, and trying to keep from being arrested.
19) The echo
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
A journalist in London investigates the mystery of a homeless man found dead in the garage of a wealthy woman. The woman is the wife of a merchant banker who absconded abroad with a vast sum of money. Not by chance her husband? The woman is not talking. By the author of The Ice House.
20) Reliquary
Author
Series
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
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.
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