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Series
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Many people helped improve the quality of this book-its accuracy, its clarity, the force of its presentation. Four people were kind enough to read the entire manuscript, and they made helpful comments and corrections throughout: Paul Dornan, formerly responsible for research on homelessness at HUD; Lucie Khadduri, who lives in Olympia WA, a city with a recent upsurge in homelessness; Daniel Perlman, Series Editor for the Society for the Psychological...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the story of Housing First (HF), a paradigm-shifting evidence-based approach to ending homelessness that began in New York City in 1992 and rapidly spread to other cities nationally and internationally. The authors report on the rise of a "homeless industry" of shelters and transitional housing programs that the HF approach directly challenged by rejecting the usual demands of treatment, sobriety, and housing readiness. They proceed to...
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
No Longer Homeless is a powerful look at a group of people we rarely hear about-those who have formerly been on the streets-sharing the details of their lives to help individuals, organizations, and communities learn to better support the ongoing challenges of homelessness.
Research suggests that between 6 and 14 percent of the US population has been homeless at some point in their lives--a huge number of people. No Longer Homeless shares the stories...
4) 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
FriesenPress
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"The book on ending homelessness provides insights for those in the industry, elected officials, policy makers, funders, public servants and the general public on the best ways to move from managing homelessness to ending homelessness. While ending homelessness may seem to be a whacky or even presposterous idea, Iain De Mong takes more than two decades of experience as an award winning industry leader to lay out how and why homelessness can be ended...
Author
Publisher
Bell Sound Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"For forty-seven days in 1999, Phyllis Cole-Dai and James Murray lived by choice on the streets of Columbus, Ohio, the nation's fifteenth-largest city. They went to the streets to practice presence: to offer nonjudgmental attention and compassion to everyone they met, especially the chronically homeless, who are so often ignored, scorned, abused, or shunned. 'The Emptiness of Our Hands, ' now in its third edition, is a meditative chronicle of their...
7) 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.
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.
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Inside a prestigious law firm, a rookie lawyer is pulled into a dark maze of lies and violence. An ambitious Stanford graduate, David Adams has begun a fast-track career at Austin's most prestigious law firm. It's a personal victory for the rising superstar--a satisfying reversal from his impoverished and despairing childhood. Now he has the life he's always wanted: an extravagant salary, a high-rise condo, a luxury SUV, and no limit to how far he...
Author
Publisher
She Writes Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"At the beginning of the homelessness epidemic in the 1980s, Josephine Ensign was a young, white, Christian wife, mother, and nurse running a new medical clinic for the homeless in the heart of the South. Through her work and intense relationships with patients and coworkers, her worldview was shattered, and after losing her job, family, and house, she became homeless herself. She reconstructed her life with altered views on homelessness -- and on...
Author
Publisher
Akashic Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In 2015, while working at a London hair salon, Joshua Coombes took to the streets with his scissors to build relationships with people sleeping rough in the capital and began posting transformative images on social media to amplify their voices - #DoSomethingForNothing was born. Featuring never-before-seen photographs and all-new writing, this book explores themes of love, acceptance, shame, and perseverance, while inviting us to see ourselves in...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
This book tells the story behind bestselling author Danielle Steel's crusade to help the homeless of San Francisco. In her powerful memoir His Bright Light, the author opened her heart to share the devastating story of the loss of her beloved son. In this new memoir, she shows us how she transformed that pain into a campaign of service that enriched her life beyond what she could imagine. For eleven years, she took to the streets with a small team...
14) 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.
17) The teddy bear
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A teddy bear, lost by the little boy who loves him, still feels loved after being rescued by a homeless man.
18) The can man
Author
Publisher
Lee & Low Books
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
After watching a homeless man collect empty soft drink cans for the redemption money, a young boy decides to collect cans himself to earn money for a skateboard until he has a change of heart.
19) Girl in pieces
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Appears on list
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
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Memoir of a man who became homeless at age 44. Describes his adventures and daily experiences that he recorded in a series of spiral notebooks over fourteen years. He writes about the "indelible characters" who share his New York City streets, including Penny, a young runaway whom he eventually reunites with her family.
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