Summary: Krisha, a ten year old boy, has been abandoned in Bombay by his mother. He tries to earn money to go home while he lives in the streets.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 1988

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SAL

Bird, James

Summary: "When home is a car, life is unpredictable. School, friends, and three meals a day aren't guaranteed. Not every town has a shelter where a family can sleep for a night or two, and places with parking lots don't welcome overnight stays. Opin, his brother Emjay, and their mother are trying to get to Los Angeles, where they hope an uncle and a new life are waiting. Emjay has taken to disappearing...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BIR

Wayne, Jimmy

Summary: A chronicle of Jimmy Wayne’s rise to fame in the music industry, his walk halfway across America to raise awareness for foster kids, his horrendous childhood, and the love shown him by Russell and Bea Costner, the elderly couple who gave him a stable home and provided the chance to complete his education.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W Publishing Group, an imprint of Thomas Nelson 2014

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: 782.421 WAY

Summary: Follows seven homeless youth in and around Union Square as they live with addition to heroin.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: National Film Network 2004

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC UNI

Summary: "In the U.S., 40% of homeless youth identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer(LGBTQ). Kicked Out brings together the voices of current and former homeless LGBTQ youth and tells the forgotten stories of some of our nations most vulnerable citizens"--P. 4 of cover.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Homofactus Press 2010

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.766 KIC

Summary: In the world's wealthiest country, 4.2 million teenagers are homeless. Former Navy veteran and homeless youth, director Rotimi Rainwater shows viewers the realities of life on the streets as he travels the country to shine a light on the epidemic of youth homelessness in America. With the help of celebrities and politicians who have been homeless themselves or advocates of the repressed, the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC LOS

Hall, Ron

Summary: The authors of "Same Kind of Different as Me" offer new reflections and stories of hope and healing, covering such topics as faith, friendship, community outreach, and much more.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2009

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 261.8325 HAL

Hall, Ron

Summary: This remarkable story shows what can happen when we choose to help. Kids will discover that we can all make a difference—no matter how big or small we are and no matter how big or small the task. Based on the New York Times bestseller Same Kind of Different As Me, which sold more than a million copies worldwide and inspired the major motion picture, this book tells the true story of Denver...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Tommy Nelson 2017

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 MOO

Hall, Ron

Summary: The co-author relates how he was held under plantation-style slavery until he fled in the 1960s and suffered homelessness for an additional eighteen years before the wife of the other co-author, an art dealer accustomed to privilege, intervened.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2006

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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HALL, RON HAL

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word Mem Hall