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Publisher
Colorado State Library
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
This kit is intended to be a starting point for libraries to reach and support those without stable housing within their communities. It includes several books for both adults and children, activities and programs for those experiencing homelessness including sharing their story, engaging and dialoguing with the community, and receiving resource lists and information about local services.There are also several homeless simulation activities, including...
Author
Publisher
Nelson Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Doug Seegers left New York for Nashville in search of every songwriter's dream. When he didn't find success, he fell into a state of loneliness that fed an addiction he had battled since adolescence. Soon, he was homeless, playing his guitar on the street with a cardboard sign asking for money. But then he cried out to God in repentance and need, and God graciously met him. Doug then found sobriety, regained some footing, and in a miraculous moment...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
For eleven years, Danielle Steel took to the streets with a small team to help the homeless of San Francisco, distributing food, clothing, bedding, tools, and toiletries. She sought no publicity for her efforts and remained anonymous throughout. Now she is speaking to bring attention to their plight. She offers achingly acute portraits of the people she met along the way and issues a heartfelt call for more effective action to aid this vast, deprived...
65) An equal justice
Author
Series
David Adams volume 1
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Inside a prestigious law firm, a rookie lawyer is pulled into a dark maze of lies and violence. An ambitious Stanford graduate, David Adams has begun a fast-track career at Austin's most prestigious law firm. It's a personal victory for the rising superstar--a satisfying reversal from his impoverished and despairing childhood. Now he has the life he's always wanted: an extravagant salary, a high-rise condo, a luxury SUV, and no limit to how far he...
Author
Series
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
1996, c1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Darnell's twin sister and the other members of the Corner Crew have doubts about his work on the school newspaper, but the article he writes about a homeless man changes his attitude about school.
69) Shelter
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
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.
70) Lockdown
Publisher
Uncork'd Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
When an angry mob attacks a local school believing that homeless people living there spread the deadly virus that has wiped out most of the population, one man stands between the helpless people and the mob.
72) The coat
Author
Publisher
Flyaway Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"After receiving a perfect red coat from her sister, Elise gives her prized jacket to a child experiencing homelessness and discovers the joy of helping others"--
Author
Publisher
Broadway Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
The touching and revealing first-person account of the remarkable work of Dr. Randy Christensen. Trained as a pediatrician, he works not in a typical hospital setting but, rather, in a 38-foot Winnebago that has been refitted as a doctor's office on wheels. His patients are homeless adolescents and children living on the outskirts of Phoenix.
Author
Series
Health watch volume no. 103
Publisher
Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, Office of eHealth and Data
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Year to year, homelessness continues to be a challenge facing the United States. It is estimated that on a given night in January 2016, 549,928 people were experiencing homelessness in the U.S. About 10,550 homeless individuals were located in Colorado, representing a 6 percent increase in the homeless population in Colorado from 2015. Not only are the homelessness rates rising in Colorado, but morbidity and mortality rates have also been shown to...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Living in the family car in their small North Carolina town after their father leaves them virtually penniless, Georgina, desperate to improve their situation and unwilling to accept her overworked mother's calls for patience, persuades her younger brother to help her in an elaborate scheme to get money by stealing a dog and then claiming the reward that the owners are bound to offer.
77) Homelessness in the Denver metropolitan area: fourth homeless point-in-time study, January 27, 2003
Author
Publisher
Supportive Housing and Homeless Programs, Colorado Department of Human Services
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
An Ogre comes to town demanding a bride, so the mayor decides to sacrifice a homeless girl with no name whom everyone thinks is a pest; however, she finds a way to outwit them all.
79) The way it works
Author
Series
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Walter Davis is homeless after his mother's death, and when he meets the girl of his dreams, he tries to keep his circumstances from her