street children

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street children

S?elavi, that is life

a Haitian story of hope
2004
A homeless boy on the streets of Haiti joins other street children, and together they build a home and a radio station where they can care for themselves and for other homeless children.

Living on the street

Hamilton's story
2006
Presents a description of a young boy's , Hamilton, life growing up on the steets of a shantytown in Brazil, including information on how he begged for food and shelter, slept on sidewalks, witnessed the effects of illegal drugs, and survived violence and poverty to live with his mother.

Ragged Dick

and, Struggling upward
1985

Purple Heart

2010
While recuperating in a Baghdad hospital from a traumatic brain injury sustained during the Iraq War, eighteen-year-old soldier Matt Duffy struggles to recall what happened to him and how it relates to his ten-year-old friend, Ali.

Children onthe streets of the Americas

homelessness, education, and globalization in the United States, Brazil, and Cuba
2000

Can't get there from here

2004
Tired of being hungry, cold, and dirty from living on the streets of New York City with a tribe of other homeless teenagers who are dying, one by one, a girl named Maybe ponders her future and longs for someone to care about her.

The dogs of winter

2012
Brought to Moscow in 1990s Russia by his mother's abusive boyfriend, five-year-old Mishka is forced by a gang of homeless children to lie and steal until he finds comfort and love with a pack of dogs.

Blade

out of the shadows
2010
The gravely injured Blade wakes up in the hospital knowing that whoever attacked him will be back to finish him off, so he sets out to save his own life and the lives of Mary and little Jaz.

Blade

playing dead
2009
A fourteen-year-old British street person with extraordinary powers of observation and self-control must face murderous thugs connected with a past he has tried to forget, when his skills with a knife earned him the nickname, Blade.

Ender's shadow

battle school
2009
Fifty-five years after the second Formic War, a small and mysterious orphan named Bean struggles to survive on the streets of Rotterdam with other vagabonds while using his tactical talents to stay alive.

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