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1) Stay
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Piper's life is turned upside down when her family moves into a shelter in a whole new city. She misses her house, her friends, and her privacy, and she hates being labeled the homeless girl at her new school. But while Hope House offers her new challenges, it also brings new friendships, like the girls in Firefly Girls Troop 423 and a sweet street dog named Baby. So when Baby's person goes missing, Piper knows she has to help. But helping means finding...
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"While learning about September 11th, fifth grader Dèja (born after the attacks) realizes how much the events still color her world"--
For fifth grader Dèja, it's tough enough starting school in a new neighborhood. Projects about her home and family only highlight how different she is from her classmates. Does her teacher reallly want an essay about living in a shelter? When Miss Garcia suggests that all her assignments have something to do with...
3) Almost home
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Sixth-grader Sugar and her mother lose their beloved house and experience the harsh world of homelessness.
4) Holes
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As further evidence of his family's bad fortune which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself.
5) Mr. Stink
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The second original, touching, twisted, and most of all hilarious novel and audiobook for children performed by David Walliams and Matt Lucas. This wonderful story is told by two of Britains best loved comedians and the characters from David's book spring to life with fantastic voices and characters galore that will make you laugh out loud. Mr Stink stank. He also stunk. And if it was correct English to say he stinked, then he stinked as well. Chloe...
8) Room one
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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.
10) Shelter
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While ten-year-old Maya attends an elite private school on scholarship her classmates are unaware that she and her family are living in a homeless shelter, but on one poignant day Maya discovers having a house is not the only way to have a home.
11) Wolf Hollow
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"Twelve-year-old Annabelle must learn to stand up for what's right in the face of a manipulative and violent new bully who targets people Annabelle cares about, including a homeless World War I veteran"--
13) Different days
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Twelve-year-old Rosie and her brother face homelessness in Honolulu when their parents, Americans of German descent, are interrogated and imprisoned as suspected spies after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Includes historical notes.
15) The teddy bear
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A teddy bear, lost by the little boy who loves him, still feels loved after being rescued by a homeless man.
16) Into the light
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Seventeen-year-old queer adoptee Manny, now homeless, sets out to find his sister Elena, who is still enmeshed in Christ's Dominion, the community that abandoned him, but the journey is fraught with danger, as he is forced to confront the religious trauma from his past.
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"Out in the neighborhood, Charlie finds things. He finds Margaret's ball, and he finds Aunt Myrtle's cat up in a tree. He finds Aunt Myrtle and his friend Steve looking at a big lemon pie. 'Whose pie is it?' Aunt Myrtle wants to know. Charlie always tries to be helpful, so he sets off to find the owner of the mystery pie ... but it doesn't seem to belong to anyone. Fortunately, Aunt Myrtle knows just what to do. "--
19) No fixed address
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Twelve-year-old Felix's appearance on a television game show reveals that he and his mother have been homeless for a while, but also restores some of his faith in other people.
20) I am a bear
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"Life isn't easy for a bear. Not when he has to sleep on the sidewalk among cardboard boxes and old clothes. Not when he lives in a city full of people who are repulsed by him. Not when he's hungry and homeless. But one day a young girl smiles at the bear, and he realizes that maybe there is something that could make life a bit easier — a friend"--Publisher's website.
