homeless persons

The story of a lonely boy who has no home or family. Then people befriend him, giving him a name and an identity, but he worries that it won't last.

Poe, a homeless young teen, struggles to keep his living situation a secret.

Reggie, who is known as "Pukey" McKnight at his Brooklyn middle school, attempts to refine his image and social status, and when he gets involved at a local homeless shelter, two clients help him believe he is making a difference, which could help him in the world and at school.

A fourteen-year-old British street person with extraordinary powers of observation and self-control must face murderous thugs connected with a past he has tried to forget, when his skills with a knife earned him the nickname, Blade.

When his mother and her new husband take off on a long honeymoon and his new stepbrother throws his belongings out the window, sixteen-year-old Martin J. Miller takes off in his Jeep and settles in Red Rock, Idaho, where he finds a job, enrolls in school, and suffers from loneliness.

Eighth-grader Patty becomes deeply involved in working at a shelter for the homeless, where she gains a new friend who is far more sensitive than the football player to whom she thought she had lost her heart.

After he loses his job and his family, "Daddy" sets out in his car to get away from it all, with no destination in mind. Told from the viewpoint of his dog, who follows him and stays with him faithfully until the end.

Taking up residence with other sex offenders, the Kid, on probation after doing time for an affair with an underage girl, forms a partnership with the Professor, a sociologist who finds him the perfect subject for his research.

Trekking through Europe toward the promise of a new life, two young Afghan brothers recite a list of cities to map the course of their journey while struggling with hunger, exhaustion, and exploitative strangers.

Fourteen-year-old Joseph tries to avoid trouble and keep in touch with his father, who is serving in Iraq, as he and his alcoholic, drug-addicted mother move from one homeless shelter to another.