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Author
Publisher
Perfect Day Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
In 2011, Laura Moulton founded Street Books, a mobile library serving people living outside in Portland, Oregon. That summer, Ben Hodgson became one of her most dedicated regulars, setting the still-unbroken single-season record for borrowing. Then Ben's routine's changed, and he didn't cross paths again with Laura for almost two years. Loaners is the story they began to tell when they reconnected, offering a street-level perspective of a community...
4) Firefly
Author
Publisher
DCB Young Readers
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Firefly lived in the park across from her mother's home. It was safer there. But after the bad night happens, and her baseball-bat-wielding mother is taken away, social services sends Firefly to live with her Aunt Gayle. She hardly knows Gayle, but discovers that she owns a costume shop. Yes, Firefly might be suffering from PTSD, but she can get used to taking baths, sleeping on a bed again, and wearing as many costumes as she can to school. But...
Author
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
[2010], ©2010
Language
English
Description
Kate is surprised to learn that a homeless camp has been set up and sets out to find ways to help them. The town council is against her, which disappoints her, but she gets the churches and several town people to help make and serve food to the homeless. She finds an elderly woman and brings her home and is confused by the lady’s assurance that she is a countess. When the daughter comes to get the woman Kate is sure something is wrong. Several crimes...
Author
Publisher
Montena
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
Español
Description
¿Por qué ha decidido Chloe ayudar al señor Apestoso? Pues porque es la única persona del mundo que ha sido amable con ella. Sí, es probable que huela a rayos y que su perra, Duquesa, parezca una rata callejera, pero es simpático y muy educado. Además, seguro que tiene muy buenas historias que contar... ¡Y a Chloe le encantan las historias!
What if that smell wasn't a cheese aroma?
Why has Chloe decided to help Mr. Stinky? Well, because he...
Author
Publisher
Feiwel & Friends
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Opin, his brother Emjay, and their mother live in a car and are trying to get to Los Angeles where they hope an uncle and a new life are waiting, but even after finding a stray dog, Opin's longing for a stable home intensifies as his brother's reckless ways hit a new high.
Author
Series
Fernando Lopez Santa Fe mystery volume 2
Publisher
Sunstone Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
After the murder of a homeless man in downtown Santa Fe, Private Investigator Fernando Lopez is visited by a local artist who claims to have seen the Devil on Canyon Road. Lopez is dubious, but rumors continue to spread as more Santa Feans see a red-faced beast in the area. When a second homeless man is murdered, Lopez decides to investigate. The case quickly becomes more complicated-and dangerous-when a violent anti-immigrant movement called Take...
Author
Publisher
Zibby Books LLC
Pub. Date
[2023].
Language
English
Description
"'I can't write a story about myself as the sad, quiet child of two drug addicts. That's not how it was, even when it was. To me, sleeping in the car was normal. Better, it was comfy and fun. I loved my bed made of clothes inside a trash bag that I sank into slowly like Uncle Fester from the Addams Family movie … I loved the motels and their swimming pools and trashy daytime TV channels … Nobody could tell us what to do.' Brittany Means's childhood...
10) 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
David Adams volume 2
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"A client with delusions of a deadly conspiracy draws attorney David Adams into a darkness where only the paranoid know how to get out alive. Former up-and-coming hotshot attorney David Adams left his glamorous corporate law firm to fight for the disenfranchised. With a caseload of petty offenses, a meager office in a crumbling building, and little in the way of compensation, David needs a real case. When he agrees to represent Rebel, David recognizes...