homeless persons

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Tom Finder

2003
Tom, a fifteen-year-old with amnesia living on the streets in Canada, plays a role in a First Nations father's search for his son and struggles to make his way to a performance of the opera "The Magic Flute," which holds a key to his past.

The tinderbox

2006
Laurence Schofield heads to London after seeing television footage of a homeless woman who may be his daughter, who disappeared six years ago, but his journey into London's seedy underside opens his eyes to the dangers his daughter may be facing and forces him to realize his daughter may be gone forever.

The paper bag prince

1992
A wise old man who visits the town dump every day moves into an abandoned train there and watches as nature gradually reclaims the polluted land.

Seeing Eye Willie

1992
A young child gives her own imaginary explanation of how Willie, a homeless man, came to be the way he is.

Found

1998
Because her mother cannot afford to keep her, Ren tries to survive along with other homeless persons who are united in their determination to care for an abandoned baby.

Neverwhere

a novel
2003
Richard Mayhew, a young businessman living in London, helps an injured girl and finds his life changed when he leaves reality and enters the city's underground world of sewers and abandoned subway stations--a world in which the girl he helped is someone of power and nobility.

Each one teach one

up and out of poverty : memoirs of a street activist
1996
Autobiography of Ron Casanova, the Vice President of the National Union of the Homeless, describing his life from his early years in an orphanage to his restlessness that led him to drugs, poverty, and homelessness, and finally, to his becoming an activist for the homeless.

Homeless not helpless

an anthology
1991
Contains photographs, short stories, poetry, articles, testimonies, essays, and artwork which explore the reality of the homeless person.

The leaves in October

1993
After her mother leaves them, nine-year-old Livvy struggles to understand and forgive as her father loses his job and takes her and her younger brother to live in a shelter for homeless people.

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