Discusses homelessness in the United States, describing the impact of the early-twenty-first-century's recession on homelessness, as well as strategies and ways to put an end to homelessness in America.
When her mother is accused of embezzling a million dollars and vanishes, spoiled and selfish Ashley must fend for herself by finding a job and a place to live.
Expecting another dull summer, Matthew's plans are thrown for a loop when he meets and befriends a homeless teen named Dinah, with whom he discovers he shares many common interests. As Matthew attempts to help Dinah escape the grasp of child welfare, he gains from her a better understanding of the impact a simple act of kindness can have.
Joy Delamere is suffocating from severe asthma, overprotective parents, and an emotionally-abusive boyfriend when she escapes to the streets of nearby Seattle and falls in with a "street family" that teaches her to use a strength she did not know she had.
Having escaped from juvenile detention centers and foster care, two teenaged boys live on their own in an abandoned shack in a New York City park, making their way by stealing, occasionally working, and trying to keep from being arrested.
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.
A gay teenage boy and a fragile teenage girl meet while living on the streets of New York City and eventually decide to take a road trip across America to discover whether or not the world is a beautiful place.
