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1) Holes
Author
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
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.
2) Crenshaw
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Lexile measure
540L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jackson and his family have fallen on hard times. There's no more money for rent, and not much for food, either. His parents, his little sister, and their dog may have to live in their minivan. Again. Crenshaw is a cat. He's large, he's outspoken, and he's imaginary. He's been gone for four years, but has come back into Jackson's life to help him. Can an imaginary friend be enough to save this family from losing everything?
3) Wolf Hollow
Author
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
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 Tobys strangeness, Annabelle...
Author
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
Life is harsh in Chennai's teeming streets, so when runaway sisters Viji and Rukku arrive, their prospects look grim. Very quickly, eleven-year-old Viji discovers how vulnerable they are in this uncaring, dangerous world. Fortunately, the girls find shelter--and friendship--on an abandoned bridge. With two homeless boys, Muthi and Arul, the group forms a family of sorts. And while making a living scavenging the city's trash heaps is the pits, the...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.--
6) Great joy
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
AD 680L
Physical Desc
36 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 30 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Just before Christmas, when Frances sees a sad-eyed organ grinder and his monkey performing near her apartment, she cannot stop thinking about them, wondering where they go at night, and wishing she could do something to help.
Author
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Formats
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.
Author
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Description
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 in western Nebraska, everyone understands that if you lose the school, you lose the town. But the mystery that has Ted's full attention at the moment is about that face, the face he sees in the upper window...
10) Stay
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
640L
Physical Desc
296 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Piper's life is turned upside down when her family moves into a shelter in a whole new city. She misses her house, her friends, and her privacy--and she hates being labeled the homeless girl at her new school. But while Hope House offers her new challenges, it also brings new friendships, like the girls in Firefly Girls Troop 423 and a sweet street dog named Baby. So when Baby's person goes missing, Piper knows she has to help. But helping means finding...
11) Towers falling
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Lexile measure
410L
Physical Desc
228 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"For fifth grader Déja, it's tough enough starting school in a new neighborhood. Projects about her home and family only highlight how different she is from her classmates. Does her teacher really want an essay about living in a shelter? When Miss Garcia suggests that all her assignments have something to do with the two towers missing from the skyline out their classroom windows, Déja is just confused. She sets off on a journey of discovery, with...
Author
Series
Vanderbeekers volume 4
Pub. Date
2020.
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When autumn arrives on 141st Street, the Vanderbeekers are busy helping Mr. Beiderman get ready for the New York City Marathon and making sure the mysterious person sleeping in the community garden gets enough to eat. But when they discover the true identity of the person making a home in the community garden's shed, their world turns upside down as they learn what it means to care for someone in an impossible situation."--Page [4] of cover.
13) Girl in pieces
Author
Lexile measure
HL 740L
Language
English
Description
As she struggles to recover and survive, seventeen-year-old homeless Charlotte "Charlie" Davis cuts herself to dull the pain of abandonment and abuse.
Charlotte Davis is in pieces. At seventeen shes already lost more than most people do in a lifetime. But shes learned how to forget. The broken glass washes away the sorrow until there is nothing but calm. You dont have to think about your father and the river. Your best friend, who is gone forever....
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
241 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Left alone in Hodeldorf, the coldest city anywhere, Otto joins forces with Nim and other tattercoats, street children who steal to survive, to face evil forces and save the day.
15) Into the light
Author
Publisher
Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
442 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old queer adoptee Manny, now homeless, sets out to find his sister Elena, who is still enmeshed in Christ's Dominion, the community that abandoned him, but the journey is fraught with danger, as he is forced to confront the religious trauma from his past.
16) Fast break
Author
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Since his mother's death, Jayson, twelve, has focused on basketball and surviving but he is found out and placed with an affluent foster family of a different race, and must learn to accept many changes, including facing his former teammates in a championship game.
17) Worse than weird
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A story of a citywide scavenger hunt and a girl who learns that family--and weirdness--is relative." -- Provided by publisher.
18) Hero worship
Author
Publisher
Flux
Lexile measure
HL 740L
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"--
Author
Publisher
DC Ink
Pub. Date
[2019]
Lexile measure
HL 260L
Physical Desc
222 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
When living with her mother's abusive boyfriend becomes unbearable, fifteen-year-old Selina Kyle, the future Catwoman, runs away and struggles to find her own identity while living on the streets of Gotham.
20) Almost home
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Lexile measure
590L
Physical Desc
264 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Sixth-grader Sugar and her mother lose their beloved house and experience the harsh world of homelessness.