Kidder, Tracy
Summary: "When he graduated from Harvard Medical School, Jim O'Connell was asked by the medical school Dean to spend one year setting up a program to care for the homeless population in Boston. It became Jim O'Connell's life calling, to help people known as "rough sleepers." For the past three decades, Dr. O'Connell has run the Boston Healthcare for the Homeless Program, which he helped to create....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023
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Summary: "Homelessness is a perennial topic of concern at libraries. In fact, staff at public libraries interact with almost as many homeless individuals as staff at shelters do. In this book Dowd, executive director of a homeless shelter, spotlights best practices drawn from his own shelter's policies and training materials"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: ALA Editions 2018
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1 available in Reference, Call number: R 020 DOWDe Jong, Iain
Summary: The Book on Ending Homelessness provides insights for those in the industry, elected officials, policy makers, funders, public servants and the general public on the best ways to move from managing homelessness to ending homelessness. While ending homelessness may seem to be a whacky or even preposterous idea, Iain De Jong takes more than two decades of experience as an award winning industry...
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Publisher / Publication Date: FriesenPress 2019
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Summary: Journalist Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were their curse and their salvation. Rex and Rose Mary and their four children lived like nomads, moving among Southwest desert towns, camping in the mountains. Rex was a charismatic, brilliant man who, when sober, captured his children's imagination, teaching them how to embrace life fearlessly. Rose Mary painted...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 362.82 WALCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD B WALLSBrosnahan, Mary
Summary: "The former CEO of the Coalition for the Homeless breaks through the highly destructive misinformation surrounding our homeless neighbors"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: Sixth-grader Sugar and her mother lose their beloved house and experience the harsh world of homelessness.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Listening Library 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD BAUJones, Emma
Summary: Homelessness is a problem that affects millions of people around the world. When discussing important issues such as homelessness, it is important to understand the pertinent facts in order to form a solid argument. Readers are presented with those pertinent facts through enlightening main text and helpful text features, including fact boxes and graphic organizers. Full-color photographs...
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Publisher / Publication Date: KidHaven Publishing 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 362.5 JONSachar, Louis
Summary: 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.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC SACShipley, Jocelyn
Summary: "After his girlfriend's accidental death by overdose, Kipp has been living on the streets, overwhelmed by his grief. He wants to honor her memory and finds help to get clean, but just when he feels like he's getting his life together, everything comes crashing down. He gets fired from his job and kicked out of his rented room on the same day. So when Reba, a friendly woman he met at the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orca Book Publishers 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SHIAuxier, Jonathan
Summary: In nineteenth-century England, after her father's disappearance Nan Sparrow, ten, works as a "climbing boy," aiding chimney sweeps, but when her most treasured possessions end up in a fireplace, she unwittingly creates a golem.--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC AUXCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC AUXHippely, Hilary Horder
Summary: A homeless girl, who lives in a car with her mother, draws a lifelike portrait of an owl based on firsthand experience.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Neal Porter Books 2024
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Summary: Orphaned and homeless, fourteen-year-old twins Vick and Tara, who is autistic, go up against a crime lord and her four-legged robotic army, with help from their robotic dog, Daisy.--Provided by Publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MCIPoole, Hilary W.
Summary: "This book looks at the problems of homelessness--not only the challenges, but also how families can meet and rise above them."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mason Crest 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 362.5 POOZahler, S. Craig
Summary: "Homeless people are disappearing in New Bastion, and occasionally, a dismantled corpse turns up in a dumpster. These crimes are left alone, until the day a comatose woman named Lillian Driscoll is kidnapped from the hospital. Her brothers - a grumpy detective named Leo and a slick mobster named Tommy - seek answers that lead them to darkness, arcane medicine, and pain." -- provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Floating World Comics 2020
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 ZAHSummary: The story of Craig Castalso, better known as Radioman for the stereo boombox worn around his neck. This New York film set mascot overcame homelessness and alcoholism to become a fixture of the New York film industry, with over 100 small parts to his name.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC RADAnderson, Natalie C.
Summary: Sixteen-year-old Tina and two friends leave Kenya and slip into the Congo, from where she and her mother fled years before, seeking revenge for her mother's murder but uncovering startling secrets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC ANDAvi
Summary: In 1893 New York, thirteen-year-old Maks, a newsboy, teams up with Willa, a homeless girl, to clear his older sister, Emma, from charges that she stole from the brand new Waldorf Hotel, where she works. Includes historical notes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2011
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC AVICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Avi 2011Clements, Andrew
Summary: 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. Ted Hammond loves a good mystery, and in the spring of his fifth-grade year, he's working on a big one. How can his school in the little town of Plattsford stay open next year if there are going to be only five students? Out here on the Great Plains...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CLEGlasgow, Kathleen
Summary: As she struggles to recover and survive, seventeen-year-old homeless Charlotte "Charlie" Davis cuts herself to dull the pain of abandonment and abuse.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GLAVigan, Delphine de.
Summary: Lou Bertignac has an IQ of 160 and a good friend called Lucas who gets her through the school day. At home her father cries in secret in the bathroom and her mother hasn't been out of the house properly for years. But Lou is about to change her life - and that of her parents - for good, all because of a school project she decides to do about the homeless. Through the project Lou meets No, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Editions Jean-Claude Lattès 2012
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 468 DEV FRENCHBird, James
Summary: "When home is a car, life is unpredictable. School, friends, and three meals a day aren't guaranteed. Not every town has a shelter where a family can sleep for a night or two, and places with parking lots don't welcome overnight stays. Opin, his brother Emjay, and their mother are trying to get to Los Angeles, where they hope an uncle and a new life are waiting. Emjay has taken to disappearing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BIRSumrow, Melanie
Summary: Told through a collection of letters, meeting notes, news articles and court transcripts, this unflinching story follows 15-year-old homeless teen Ruby, who is accused of murdering a wealthy businessman and must make desperate choices to prove her innocence with the help of her state-appointed caseworker.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SUMCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SUMSummary: It tells the story of Bobbie and Jude, a young drug-addicted couple who exist somewhere between homelessness on the streets of Chicago and the fantasy life they imagine for themselves. Though they masterfully con and steal in an attempt to stay one step ahead of their addiction, they are ultimately forced to face the reality of their situation.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Oscilloscope Laboratories 2015
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ANISummary: A young dancing prodigy and his big brother find themselves homeless in New York, until a kindly dance teacher and his granddaughter take them in and change their lives forever.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018