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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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Description
The #1 New York Times bestselling author's ultimate edition of his wildly successful first novel featuring his "preferred text"-and including his special Neverwhere tale "How the Marquis Got His Coat Back" Published in 1997, Neil Gaiman's darkly hypnotic first novel, Neverwhere, heralded the arrival of a major talent and became a touchstone of urban fantasy. Over the years, a number of versions were produced both in the U.S. and the U.K. Now Gaiman's...
Author
Series
Red gloves series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
One long-ago Christmas, Earl Gibson lost the two things most precious to him: his wife and daughter. Angry and heartbroken, he ended up living on the streets and abandoned any belief he'd once had in God.
Ten years later Big Earl meets Gideon, a seven-year-old leukemia patient who believes with all her heart that "Christmas means never having to ask God how much he loves us." Gideon is determined to reach this lonely and hurting man who hates Christmas--and...
Author
Series
V. I. Warshawski mysteries volume 8
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
1994
Language
English
5) Haiku
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Late one night, Michael--an addicted gambler who has lost everything, including himself--spots a woman in a white Rolls-Royce throwing something into the river. Convinced that the woman is a perfect blackmail target, he attempts to recruit a band of
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Fleeing from a cruel step-father, eleven-year-old Robin takes his baby brother and finds shelter with street boys living in a church in a tenement area of New York City.
Author
Series
Faith Fairchild mysteries volume 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
Caterer Faith Fairchild and family are living in one of historic Cambridge, Massachusetts', venerable Brattle Street houses while the Reverend Tom teaches a course at the Harvard Divinity School and does some soul searching -- is his Aleford parish his true calling? One night in downtown Boston, Faith is startled by a face from her past. It's Richard Morgan, a former boyfriend from her life as a single woman in Manhattan. Their heady, whirlwind affair...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Robert "Cali" Callahan, seventeen, gets swept up into the private-investigator business and must deal with the ramifications of looking for fellow runaways who may not want to be found--and with falling in love with one of them.
11) City of orphans
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
12) Hero worship
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When homeless teenager Marvin realizes his dream of working for the Core, an elite squad of costumed heroes, he discovers that the superstars he's idolized for so long aren't the people he thought they were"--
13) I am a bear
Author
Publisher
Eerdmans Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A homeless bear living in a city has a hard time getting by, but when a little girl makes friends with him, his life becomes brighter.
Author
Publisher
NavPress
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
With the rent overdue and her bipolar mother missing, seventeen-year-old Adele is forced out of her home and although she tries to maintain the pretense of normality, things rapidly fall apart.
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Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Torn between the affections of two men, will Emma's time away from home help her choose?
Although promised to the widowed neighbor Zeb, Emma is considering leaving her Amish community to watch over her younger brother Mark when he leaves for Philadelphia to explore the outside world during his Rumspringa.
There, she reconnects with her former beau Caleb, who protects the Amish teens, introducing them to his life evangelizing and helping the homeless....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1903 Brooklyn, fourteen-year-old Joseph Michtom's life changes for the worse when his parents, Russian immigrants, invent the teddy bear and turn their apartment into a factory, while nearby the glitter of Coney Island contrasts with the dismal li
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
When Zoe's family has to live in their van for months after moving from California to Oregon so her father can find work, Zoe tries to keep her sixth-grade classmates from discovering that she is homeless.
19) 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--
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