homeless persons

When eleven-year-old Khyber's life falls apart, she searches for a homeless woman whom she befriended.

Examines the problem of homelessness, including why it happens, who it affects, what it is like, and how it can be alleviated.

Feeling unwanted, an eleven-year-old orphan runs away from his foster home and lives on the streets until he finds a new type of family at a hotel.

Abby, whose father preaches in a large urban church, sees a homeless old woman searching the trash cans nearby and is inspired to do something for the neighborhood's many street people.

Young Stanley Yelnats begins a journey of self-discovery when he is sent to a juvenile detention center in Texas, where the boys are forced to dig five-foot-deep holes as punishment--a process for which Stanley suspects the warden has ulterior motives.

As her once-comfortable world becomes more and more frightening, eleven-year-old Suzie is almost as worried about losing her best friend as she is about her family being evicted from their apartment.

Sammy continues to make life with her grandmother interesting as she tries to discover who is stealing from St. Mary's church, befriends a homeless girl, and plays in a softball tournament against a bitter rival.

Two girls and two boys, ages nine to twelve, talk about their own personal experiences with homelessness and life in shelters.

Black-and-white photos depict the world of homelessness by homeless children.

Aided by a mysterious, possibly magical dog named Shadow and by various strangers, a seventeen-year-old with acute memory loss, who calls herself Blue, makes a 500-mile trek to her childhood home, unaware of what she has left behind.