homeless persons

While exploring a trolley car museum, eleven-year-old Mary Rose and her younger sister Jo-Beth encounter voices from nowhere and other strange events that make them think the museum is haunted.

Since she left Jamaica for America after her father died, Zettie lives in a car with her mother while they both go to school and plan for a real home.

Sophie is torn between her desire to buy a beautiful toy hedgehog and her compassion for a hungry street person.

Six imaginative schoolmates embark on a game in which they pretend to be gypsies, but when one of the boys runs away and takes up with a group of homeless people, the game threatens to become all too real.

After her mother leaves, fifteen-year-old Irena runs away from home and hitchhikes to Key West where she tries to make a better life for herself.

Falsely convicted of a brutal crime, New York City college student Jeff Converse is ripped away from his dreams for the future and plunged into a dark underworld beneath the streets of Manhattan, where he must join the society of the homeless and the mad--and avoid being hunted by a mysterious predator.

Sixth-grader Liza K., one of five homeless people living in an unspoiled forest in southern Florida, searches for a missing alligator destined for official extermination and studies the delicate ecological balance keeping her outdoor home beautiful.

Thirteen-year-old Kelly tries to befriend Mr. Weems, a disturbed homeless Vietnam War veteran who spends his days in her suburban library, though the man makes it clear he wants to be left alone.

Ted Hammond, the only sixth grader in his small Nebraska town's one-room schoolhouse, searches for clues to the disappearance of a homeless family.

When Lizzie and Ben discover a homeless lady living in their neighborhood, they must reconcile their desire to help her with their mother's admonition not to talk to strangers.