Kidder, Tracy
Summary: "When he graduated from Harvard Medical School, Jim O'Connell was asked by the medical school Dean to spend one year setting up a program to care for the homeless population in Boston. It became Jim O'Connell's life calling, to help people known as "rough sleepers." For the past three decades, Dr. O'Connell has run the Boston Healthcare for the Homeless Program, which he helped to create....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLEDowd, Ryan
Summary: "Homelessness is a perennial topic of concern at libraries. In fact, staff at public libraries interact with almost as many homeless individuals as staff at shelters do. In this book Dowd, executive director of a homeless shelter, spotlights best practices drawn from his own shelter's policies and training materials"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: ALA Editions 2018
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 020 DOW1 available in Reference, Call number: R 020 DOW
De Jong, Iain
Summary: 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 preposterous idea, Iain De Jong takes more than two decades of experience as an award winning industry...
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Publisher / Publication Date: FriesenPress 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.5 DE JBauer, Joan
Summary: Sixth-grader Sugar and her mother lose their beloved house and experience the harsh world of homelessness.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Listening Library 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD BAUJones, Emma
Summary: Homelessness is a problem that affects millions of people around the world. When discussing important issues such as homelessness, it is important to understand the pertinent facts in order to form a solid argument. Readers are presented with those pertinent facts through enlightening main text and helpful text features, including fact boxes and graphic organizers. Full-color photographs...
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Publisher / Publication Date: KidHaven Publishing 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 362.5 JONSachar, Louis
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Place a hold to request this item.Walls, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD B WALLSLupica, Mike
Summary: Since his mother's death, Jayson, twelve, has focused on basketball and surviving but he is found out and placed with an affluent foster family of a different race, and must learn to accept many changes, including facing his former teammates in a championship game.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House/Listening Library 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD LUPShipley, Jocelyn
Summary: "After his girlfriend's accidental death by overdose, Kipp has been living on the streets, overwhelmed by his grief. He wants to honor her memory and finds help to get clean, but just when he feels like he's getting his life together, everything comes crashing down. He gets fired from his job and kicked out of his rented room on the same day. So when Reba, a friendly woman he met at the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orca Book Publishers 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SHIAuxier, Jonathan
Summary: In nineteenth-century England, after her father's disappearance Nan Sparrow, ten, works as a "climbing boy," aiding chimney sweeps, but when her most treasured possessions end up in a fireplace, she unwittingly creates a golem.--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC AUXMcIntosh, Will
Summary: Orphaned and homeless, fourteen-year-old twins Vick and Tara, who is autistic, go up against a crime lord and her four-legged robotic army, with help from their robotic dog, Daisy.--Provided by Publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MCIPoole, 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 POOKubica, Mary
Summary: Heidi Wood has always been a charitable woman: she works for a nonprofit and 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 apparently homeless, this girl could be a criminal--or worse. But despite her family's objections, Heidi invites Willow and the baby to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio, Inc. 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: CD FIC KUBO'Connor, Barbara.
Summary: Living in the family car in their small North Carolina town after their father leaves them virtually penniless, Georgina, desperate to improve their situation and unwilling to accept her overworked mother's calls for patience, persuades her younger brother to help her in an elaborate scheme to get money by stealing a dog and then claiming the reward that the owners are bound to offer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus & Giroux 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC OCOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC OCoPyron, Bobbie
Summary: Piper's life is turned upside down when her family moves into a shelter in a whole new city. She misses her house, her friends, and her privacy--and she hates being labeled the homeless girl at her new school. But while Hope House offers her new challenges, it also brings new friendships, like the girls in Firefly Girls Troop 423 and a sweet street dog named Baby. So when Baby's person goes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2019
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC PYRRife, Jamie
Summary: "How do individuals move from being homeless to finding safe, stable, and secure places to live? Can we recreate the conditions that helped them most? What policies are needed to support what worked-and to remove common obstacles? Addressing these questions, Jamie Rife and Donald Burnes start from the premise that the most important voices in efforts to end homelessness are the ones most often...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc. 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.5 RIFSigwarth, Lydia M.
Summary: When Lydia was five years old, she and her family had to leave their home. They hopped from Grandma's house to Aunt Linda's house to Cousin Alice's house, but no place was permanent. Then one day, everything changed. Lydia's mom took her to a new place ? not a house, but a big building with stone columns, and tall, tall steps. The library. In the library, Lydia found her special spot across...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG SIGSummary: The story of Craig Castalso, better known as Radioman for the stereo boombox worn around his neck. This New York film set mascot overcame homelessness and alcoholism to become a fixture of the New York film industry, with over 100 small parts to his name.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC RADAnderson, Natalie C.
Summary: Sixteen-year-old Tina and two friends leave Kenya and slip into the Congo, from where she and her mother fled years before, seeking revenge for her mother's murder but uncovering startling secrets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC ANDAvi
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC AVICopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Avi 2011Clements, Andrew
Summary: Ted Hammond, the only sixth grader in his small Nebraska town's one-room schoolhouse, searches for clues to the disappearance of a homeless family. Ted Hammond loves a good mystery, and in the spring of his fifth-grade year, he's working on a big one. How can his school in the little town of Plattsford stay open next year if there are going to be only five students? Out here on the Great Plains...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CLEGlasgow, Kathleen
Summary: As she struggles to recover and survive, seventeen-year-old homeless Charlotte "Charlie" Davis cuts herself to dull the pain of abandonment and abuse.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.5696 TOTVigan, 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