homeless persons

Forced to live on the streets of New York after his mother disappears from their hotel room, eleven-year-old Clay is befriended by two men who help him survive.

A boy spends the day with Uncle Willie in the soup kitchen where he works preparing and serving food for the hungry.

Having lost access to the old railroad station where they had been staying, homeless Ian and his father move into an unused city courthouse and try to avoid being discovered by the authorities.

Contains three novellas by Gary Paulsen dealing with family, dogs, and the power of art and selflessness to change lives.

Davey describes how he spends his time after school trying to keep safe and warm until he can meet his mother and older brother when the shelter opens at eight o'clock.

Dean Tollridge spends hours playing army with his friends in the woods behind his home, and plotting out missions when he should be doing schoolwork, but reality intrudes when the boys encounter a homeless veteran living in their imaginary battlefield. Presented in graphic novel form.

In a London of the future, three homeless teens stumble upon a kidnapped baby and hope to be able to exchange her for money to improve their lives.

Fourteen-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.

When authorities threaten to take Sophie, twelve, from Charles who has been her guardian since she was one and both survived a shipwreck, the pair goes to Paris to try to find Sophie's mother, and they are aided by Matteo and his band of "rooftoppers.".

The story of a homeless boy who starts by losing everything, and through his experience as an evacuee in World War Two, finds friendship, vocation and a place to belong.