street children

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No turning back

a novel of South Africa
1999
When the abuse at home becomes too much for twelve-year-old Sipho, he runs away to the streets of Johannesburg and learns to survive in the post-apartheid world.

S?lavi, 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.

No turning back

a novel of South Africa
1997
When the abuse at home becomes too much for twelve-year-old Sipho, he runs away to the streets of Johannesburg and learns to survive in the post-apartheid world.

Grk smells a rat

2008
Tim Malt arrives in India with his dog, Grk, his parents, and his friends to sightsee and compete in a tennis tournament, but when they meet a boy named Krishnan, they learn about the Blue Rat Gang, which enslaves children, including Krishnan's sister, who Tim and Grk attempt to help, eventually encountering the gang's leader.

Grk and the Pelotti gang

2007
Tim and his dog Grk face kidnapping, a plane crash in the jungles of Brazil, and more as they pursue a gang of escaped bank robbers--the infamous Pelotti brothers--who were originally captured by the Raffifi children's father.

Chipper

2001
Orphaned and homeless, twelve-year-old Chipper Carey is a street-wise gang member in 1890s New York City, until a con man introduces him to a wealthy woman who is seeking her long-lost nephew and Chipper must decide where his loyalties lie.

The king of Mulberry Street

2005
Dom, a nine-year old stowaway from Naples, Italy, arrives in New York and must learn to survive the perils of street life in the big city.

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