Catalog Search Results
2) Almost home
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Newbery Honor winner Joan Bauer's new novel will touch your heartWhen twelve-year-old Sugar's grandfather dies and her gambling father takes off yet again, Sugar and her mother lose their home in Missouri. They head to Chicago for a fresh start, only to discover that fresh starts aren't so easy to come by for the homeless. Nevertheless, Sugar's mother has taught her to be grateful no matter what, so Sugar does her best. With the help of a rescue dog,...
3) Holes
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Description
As further evidence of his family's bad fortune which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnate 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.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Walls, who spent years trying to hide her childhood experiences, allows the story to spill out in this recollection of growing up. From her current perspective as a contributor to MSNBC online, she remembers the poverty, hunger, jokes, and bullying she and her siblings endured, and she looks back at her parents: her flighty, self-indulgent mother, a Pollyanna unwilling to assume the responsibilities of parenting, and her father, troubled, brilliant...
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In Chennai, india, after spending his whole life in jail with his mother, who is serving time for a crime she did not commit, nine-year-old Kabir is suddenly released and has to figure out how to survive on his own in the outside world.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Already a leader in New York's underground world of homeless children, Buddy Clark takes on the responsibility of protecting the overweight, emotionally disturbed friend with whom he has been playing hooky from eighth grade all semester.
7) Pretty baby
Author
Language
English
Description
When Heidi Wood, a woman who can't help herself from helping others, spots a teenage girl with a small baby on the platform of Chicago's train system, her heart goes out to them. Not only is it cold and raining, but the pair is obviously in need of help. Soon, Heidi has spotted the homeless teenager again, and, being the nurturing type, she feels compelled to reach out to her. That annoys her husband, Chris, and selfish 12-year-old daughter, Zoe....
8) Reliquary
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
When police find two odd skeletons locked in a bony embrace deep in the mud off the Manhattan shoreline, Natural History curator Margo Green is called in to aid in the investigation.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
They call them travelers. They move from city to city, panhandling, committing no crimes. And now someone is killing them. Lucas Davenport's adopted daughter, Letty, is home from college when she gets a phone call from a woman traveler named Skye, whom she'd befriended in San Francisco. The woman thinks somebody's killing her friends, and she's afraid she knows who it is. She's hiding out, and she doesn't know what to do. Letty pays for a bus ticket...
11) Lila
Author
Series
Gilead novels volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Marilynne Robinson, one of the greatest novelists of our time, returns to the town of Gilead in an unforgettable story of a girlhood lived on the fringes of society in fear, awe, and wonder. Lila, homeless and alone after years of roaming the countryside, steps inside a small-town Iowa church-the only available shelter from the rain-and ignites a romance and a debate that will reshape her life. She becomes the wife of a minister, John Ames, and begins...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Growing up in the shadows cast by two world wars, Annabelle has lived a mostly quiet, steady life in her small Pennsylvania town. Until the day new student Betty Glengarry walks into her class. Betty quickly reveals herself to be cruel and manipulative, and while her bullying seems isolated at first, things quickly escalate, and reclusive World War I veteran Toby becomes a target of her attacks. While others have always seen Toby's strangeness, Annabelle...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Thor's hammer is missing again. The thunder god has a disturbing habit of misplacing his weapon-- the mightiest force in the Nine Worlds. This time the hammer isn't just lost, it has fallen into enemy hands. If Magnus Chase and his friends can't retrieve the hammer quickly, the mortal worlds will be defenseless against an onslaught of giants. Ragnarok will begin. The Nine Worlds will burn. Unfortunately, the only person who can broker a deal for...
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"Every Falling Star, the first book to portray contemporary North Korea to a young audience, is the intense memoir of a North Korean boy named Sungju who is forced at age twelve to live on the streets and fend for himself. To survive, Sungju creates a gang and lives by thieving, fighting, begging, and stealing rides on cargo trains. Sungju richly re-creates his scabrous story, depicting what it was like for a boy alone to create a new family with...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
This book tells how Denver Moore, an African American, was held under plantation-style slavery until he fled in the 1960s and suffered homelessness for an additional eighteen years before Deborah Hall, an art dealer accustomed to privilege, intervened.