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1) Pretty baby
Author
Language
English
Description
She sees the teenage girl on the train platform, standing in the pouring rain, clutching an infant in her arms. She boards a train and is whisked away. But she can't get the girl out of her head... Heidi Wood has always been a charitable woman: she works for a nonprofit, takes in stray cats. Still, her husband and daughter are horrified when Heidi returns home one day with a young woman named Willow and her four-month-old baby in tow. Disheveled and...
Author
Series
Red gloves series volume 1
Language
English
Description
Bitter and grief-stricken after the loss of his wife and daughter, Earl Gibson has lost his faith in God and lives homeless on the street, until he encounters Gideon, a seven-year-old leukemia patient determined to reach out to him.
6) Almost home
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Sixth-grader Sugar and her mother lose their beloved house and experience the harsh world of homelessness.
7) Haiku
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Abandoning his duties as a sensei after his reckless arrogance causes the death of a protégée, the war-weary Ho slowly attracts a motley band of followers before launching a desperate blackmail scheme that is complicated by the planned destruction of abuilding.
10) The way it works
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Walter Davis is homeless after his mother's death, and he meets the girl of his dreams and tries to keep his circumstances from her.
Author
Series
Publisher
Ig Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Nelson Algren was a renowned writer, known for his penetrating and influential social novels such as The Man With the Golden Arm and A Walk on the Wild Side. Originally published in 1935, Somebody in Boots was Algren's first novel, based on his experiences living in Texas during the Great Depression. A wonderful companion to Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, this new edition of Somebody in Boots features an introduction by Colin Asher, who is writing...
14) The coat
Author
Publisher
Flyaway Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"After receiving a perfect red coat from her sister, Elise gives her prized jacket to a child experiencing homelessness and discovers the joy of helping others"--
Publisher
A & E Home Video
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
On his way to dinner with his fiancee, Richard Mayhew helps a mysterious wounded girl lying on the sidewalk. The next day, he discovers his actions have erased him from existence and he is now consigned to the underground world of London Below.
Home use only.
18) Holes
Author
Series
Language
English
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.
19) Great joy
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Just before Christmas, when Frances sees a sad-eyed organ grinder and his monkey performing near her apartment, she cannot stop thinking about them, wondering where they go at night, and wishing she could do something to help.
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"On a bright spring morning, John Hyde opens the gates to the grounds of Moreton Corbet Castle, a local medieval ruin, and discovers the body of a homeless man with his throat slashed. Detective Inspector Alex Randall and his team soon face some disturbing questions: was this a random attack, or does someone have a vendetta against the homeless? For coroner Martha Gunn, establishing the man's identity is essential, but there are no clues"--Amazon.com....
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