Poole, Hilary W.
Summary: "This book looks at the problems of homelessness--not only the challenges, but also how families can meet and rise above them."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mason Crest 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 362.5 POOClement, Jennifer
Summary: "Pearl's mother took her away from her family just weeks after she was born, and drove off to central Florida determined to begin a new life for herself and her daughter--in the parking lot next to a trailer park. Pearl grew up in the front seat of their '94 Mercury, while her mother lived in the back. Despite their hardships, mother and daughter both adjusted to life, making friends with the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hogarth 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLESummary: Discover hope and forgiveness in a small-town diner! With Christmas on the way, homeless single mother Rose and her young daughter, Katy, are befriended by a feisty waitress, a big-hearted short-order cook, and a storefront Santa. When Rose has a "chance" encounter with a wealthy art collector, will it change the path of her small family?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Bridgestone Multimedia Group 2018
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1 available in KBL Holiday Storage, Call number: DVD Juv LeGlaser, Karina Yan
Summary: From the New York Times bestselling creator of the Vanderbeekers series comes a triumphant tale of friendship, healing, and the power of believing in ourselves told from the perspective of biracial sixth-graders June and Tyrell, two children living in a homeless shelter. As their friendship grows over a shared love of classical music, June and Tyrell confront a new housing policy that puts...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books an imprint of Harpercollins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC GLARichards, Emilie
Summary: Reverend Analiese Wagner's judgment is called into question when she steps in to help a homeless family. Then Isaiah Colburn, the Catholic priest who was her mentor, reappears in her life, torn between the priesthood and his desire for a future with her. Analiese now must answer the question of how to define her own happiness.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MIRA Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RICBunn, T. Davis
Summary: "A young mother struggles to get back on her feet after a devastating loss leaves her and her daughter alone and living on the street"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2014
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BUNFoster, Ben
Summary: Living with her father in a nature preserve in Portland, Oregon, thirteen-year-old Caroline only merges with the civilized world once a week when they go into the city, but an encounter with a backcountry jogger derails their entire existence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entert. 2018
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE LEAGlaser, Karina Yan
Summary: From the New York Times best-selling creator of the Vanderbeekers series comes a triumphant tale of friendship, healing, and the power of believing in ourselves told from the perspective of biracial sixth-graders June and Tyrell, two children living in a homeless shelter. As their friendship grows over a shared love of classical music, June and Tyrell confront a new housing policy that puts...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Products, LLC 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC GLAKennedy, Michelle.
Summary: "Michelle Kennedy had a typical middle-class American childhood in Vermont. She attended college, interned for the U.S. Senate, married her high school sweetheart, and settled in the suburbs of D.C. But the comfortable life she was building quickly fell apart. At age twenty-four Michelle was suddenly single, homeless, and living out of a car with her three small children. She waitressed night...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking Penguin 2005
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 306.87 KENBalliett, Blue
Summary: On a cold winter day in Chicago, Early's father disappeared, and now she, her mother and her brother have been forced to flee their apartment and join the ranks of the homeless--and it is up to Early to hold her family together and solve the mystery surrounding her father.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BALCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Balliett 2013Irvin, Kelly.
Summary: Annie Shirack is trying to fight her feelings for David Plank, a young Amish man who is struggling with an aggressive case of Hodgkin's lymphoma. David loves Annie too much to let her into his life, only, he fears, to leave her. When a homeless young woman and her two-year-old daughter show up in Bliss Creek, Annie tries to help them establish a new life. But all the good deeds in the world...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC IRVRock, Peter
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2009
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Summary: "Teen homelessness is not always connected to poverty and crime. Sometimes there's more to the story. No Known Address follows a teen named Tyler from a privileged family in Victoria, British Columbia, who is kicked out of his home by his abusive dad after being blamed for bringing prescription narcotics to a party. This novel brings to light the serious nature of verbal and emotional abuse and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: James Lorimer & Company Ltd., Publishers 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fiction Barwin 2020Vigan, Delphine de.
Summary: Lou Bertignac has an IQ of 160 and a good friend called Lucas who gets her through the school day. At home her father cries in secret in the bathroom and her mother hasn't been out of the house properly for years. But Lou is about to change her life - and that of her parents - for good, all because of a school project she decides to do about the homeless. Through the project Lou meets No, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Editions Jean-Claude Lattès 2012
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 468 DEV FRENCHHarness, Johanna
Summary: A Spillworthy is an idea so good, it has to be shared and ten-year-old Ulysses Finch doesn't let being homeless get in his way. He scrawls his best thoughts on pizza boxes, releases them into the wild, and relishes every response. After moving to Idaho, Ulysses finds Gem Rost's journal and dives into reading it. She must be a kindred spirit! Or is she?
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Harness 2014Overton, Hollie
Summary: The search for a teenage runaway sends her foster mother, a psychologist working for the LAPD, on a dangerous journey through Los Angeles' criminal underworld, in this gripping new thriller by the author of the international bestseller Baby Doll.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Redhook 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OVESummary: Michael Oher is a homeless African-American teenager who is from a broken home. Mike is taken in by the Touhys, a well-to-do white family who help him fulfill his potential. At the same time, Oher's presence in the Touhys' lives leads them to some insightful self-discoveries of their own. Living in his new environment, Mike faces a completely different set of challenges to overcome - as both a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2010
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Blind 2010Azzopardi, Trezza.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2004
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC AZZVenkatraman, Padma
Summary: In Chennai, india, after spending his whole life in jail with his mother, who is serving time for a crime she did not commit, nine-year-old Kabir is suddenly released and has to figure out how to survive on his own in the outside world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nancy Paulsen Books 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC VENWalls, Jeannette.
Summary: Journalist Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were their curse and their salvation. Rex and Rose Mary and their four children lived like nomads, moving among Southwest desert towns, camping in the mountains. Rex was a charismatic, brilliant man who, when sober, captured his children's imagination, teaching them how to embrace life fearlessly. Rose Mary painted...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2010