homeless persons - fiction

While helping Grandpa Mike do volunteer work at a shelter for less fortunate people, Izzy tries to figure out the best way to help a girl her own age who is staying there.

Stanley Yelnats is under a family curse, and is unjustly sent to a boys' detention center where the boys build character by spending all day, every day, digging holes exactly five feet wide and five feet deep. Stanley figures out that the warden is looking for something, but what?.

on the day before Christmas Eve, Rag Man Henry and his son help an injured dog and receive a wonderful gift in return.