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Series
Goddesses Anonymous volume 4
Language
English
Description
For more than a decade, minister Analiese Wagner has felt privileged to lead her parishioners along a well-lit path. Her commitment has never been seriously tested until the frigid night she encounters a homeless family huddling in the churchyard. Offering them shelter in a vacant parish house apartment and taking teenage Shiloh Fowler-a girl desperate to rescue her parents-under her wing, she tests the loyalty and faith of her congregation. Isaiah...
Language
English
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Will (Ben Foster) and his teenage daughter, Tom (Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie), have lived off the grid for years in the forests of Portland, Oregon. When their idyllic life is shattered, both are put into social services. After clashing with their new surroundings, Will and Tom set off on a harrowing journey back to their wild homeland. Nominated for Best Feature, Best Supporting Female, and Best Director at the **Film Independent Spirit Awards.**...
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
When an uncaring executive falls from the corporate ladder, he learns how difficult it can be to find work and compassion in today's economy. He eventually accepts a humiliating job, but with bills rapidly piling up, and not enough money to go around, he quickly discovers that, unless something changes soon, he'll lose everything by Christmas. Will family and faith be enough to bring joy?
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Language
English
Description
"Pearl's mother took Pearl away from her family just weeks after she was born and drove off to central Florida determined to begin a new life for herself and her daughter--in the parking lot next to a trailer park. Pearl grew up in the front seat of their '94 Mercury, while her mother lived in the back. Despite their hardships, mother and daughter both adjusted to life, making friends with the residents of the trailers and creating a deep connection...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"It's June's first day at Huey House, and as if losing her home weren't enough, she also can't bring her cherished viola inside. Before the accident last year, her dad saved tip money for a year to buy her viola, and she's not about to give it up now. Tyrell has been at Huey House for three years and gives June a glimpse of the good things about living there: friendship, hot meals, and a classical musician next door. Can he and June work together...
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Discover hope and forgiveness in a small-town diner! With Christmas on the way, homeless single mother Rose and her young daughter, Katy, are befriended by a feisty waitress, a big-hearted short-order cook, and a storefront Santa. When Rose has a "chance" encounter with a wealthy art collector, will it change the path of her small family?
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Series
Language
English
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"This book explores the dynamics of unhoused families, including the different kinds of unhoused families, the ways they form, the challenges they can face, and strategies for working through those challenges. Includes "Many Identities" and "Did You Know?" special features"--
Author
Pub. Date
[2022].
Language
English
Description
A powerful and sobering look behind the growing epidemic of homelessness that is destroying our neighborhoods, our cities, people’s lives and future generations. In one of the richest countries in the world, how is this happening? Why? And perhaps more significantly, what can be done to turn it around? The ANSWERS are never easy, but they do exist...once we begin to ask the right QUESTIONS. ---Amazon
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"At a family meeting, Ror declares her purpose: I am an artist. But she doesn't really know what that means. Raised on a commune, she's never attended a day of school, and has seen little of the outside world. What she knows best is drawing. To her, it's like breathing; it's how she makes sense of the world. When her father torches the commune -- and himself -- Ror's life changes. She, her mother and sister end up in a homeless residence in Manhattan,...
11) My abandonment
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Leave No Trace, a film adaptation of My Abandonment, directed by Debra Granik (Winter's Bone) premiered at the Sundance Film Festival to critical acclaim.
A thirteen-year-old girl and her father live in Forest Park, an enormous nature preserve in Portland, Oregon. They inhabit an elaborate cave shelter, wash in a nearby creek, store perishables at the water's edge, use a makeshift septic system, tend a garden, even keep
...12) Hold fast
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Description
On a cold winter day in Chicago, Early's father disappeared, and now she, her mother and her brother have been forced to flee their apartment and join the ranks of the homeless--and it is up to Early to hold her family together and solve the mystery surrounding her father.
13) The in-between
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"In the early 2000s, thirteen-year-old Katie Van Heidrich has moved more times that she can count, for as long as she can remember. There were the slow moves where you see the whole thing coming. There were the fast ones where you grab what you can in seconds. When Katie and her family come back from an out-of-town funeral, they discover their landlord has unceremoniously evicted them, forcing them to pack lightly and move quickly. They make their...
14) Special features from Kuhle wampe or Who owns the world =: Kuhle wampe oder Wem gehört die Welt?
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Deutsch
Description
This playlist includes the following special features from Kuhle wampe or Who owns the world, How the Berlin worker lives (dir. Slatan Dudow, 1930) Slatan Dudow: a film about a marxist artist (dir. Volker Koepp, 1974) original prologue, with Herbert Jhering, 1958.
15) No place
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
"When Dan and his parents can no longer pay their mortgage, they end up homeless and living in a local tent city. It's a bad situation, and it only gets worse when the leader of the tent city is brutally beaten. Who is trying to shut down the tent city, and why?"--
Author
Series
Lexile measure
GN 580L
Language
English
Formats
Description
This Fractured Fairy Tale weaves the story of Rosabelle or "Rosa." The teen can't wait to start her first job at a local coffee shop. There, she meets and gets to know her co-worker, Draven, a troubled goth boy. When he leaves his phone at work one day, she brings it to his house, where she discovers his secret. Later, a police encounter endangers Draven's family and future. Can Rosabelle figure out a way to help her beastly co-worker? Aligned to...
17) The sign painter
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Amy Dowell had always considered herself a very good mother. But when she loses her husband to illness and her home to debt, she finds herself and her young daughter Kimberly living on the streets as she struggles to find a job that will get them back on their feet again. When Amy meets Lucy Watts, the pastor in charge of the church program that fed Amy and Kimberly their latest meal, Lucy sets them up in temporary housing and gives her a lead on...
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Bereft of resources and savings, Darius and Josephine Blackmon fall hard from their middle-class lifestyle and resort to living in their car. The couple has two young children to care for, but they have no family or friends to help them out of their hardship. Meanwhile, Darius' once unshakeable faith begins to fall apart as the pressures of trying to find work and keep his family together start to mount.
19) Still a family
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 500L
Language
English
Description
"A little girl and her parents have lost their home and must live in a homeless shelter. Even worse, due to a common shelter policy, her dad must live in a men's shelter, separated from her and her mom. Despite these circumstances, the family still finds time to be together. They meet at the park to play hide-and-seek, slide on slides, and pet puppies. While the young girl wishes for better days when her family is together again under a roof of their...
20) Wind: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
As signs of spring and renewal begin to appear around the town of King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, Ernest Pitovsky and his family find thenselves huddled together in an abandoned automoblie near the railroad tracks, no other place to call home.
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