Examines homelessness in today's society as it affects our nation's youth, their education, upbringing, opportunities for employment, enmeshment with crime, and prospects for ameliorating their situation.
The United Nations (Community Connections: How Do They Help?)
by Katie Marsico
United Way (Community Connections) (Community Connections: How Do They Help?)
by Katie Marsico
How Can the Poor Be Helped? (At Issue (Paperback)) (At Issue (Library))
The Welfare Debate (Essential Viewpoints) (Essential Viewpoints Set 3)
by Kekla Magoon
The 1960's (Lucent Library of Historical Eras)
by Craig E Blohm and Stuart Kallen
Children in Our World: Refugees and Migrants (Children in Our World)
by Ceri Roberts
The Children in Our World picture book series helps children make sense of the larger issues and crises that dominate the news in a sensitive and appropriate manner. With relatable comparisons, carefully researched text and striking illustrations, children can begin to understand who refugees and migrants are, why they've left their homes, where they live and what readers can do to help those in need. Where issues aren't appropriate to describe in words, Hanane Kai's striking and sensiti...
This sensitive portrayal tells the real-life stories of six courageous children and their families who live and work on the streets in Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Guatemala. These resourceful, resilient and optimistic children and families talk about their pasts, their present lives and their hopes for the future. With colour photographs by the author, and illustrations, these poignant stories come from the author of the ground-breaking Refugee Diary series. Books for Keeps review of Street Childr...
This sensitive portrayal tells the real-life stories of six courageous children and their families who live and work on the streets in Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Guatemala. These resourceful, resilient and optimistic children and families talk about their pasts, their present lives and their hopes for the future. With colour photographs by the author, and illustrations, these poignant stories come from the author of the ground-breaking Refugee Diary series. Books for...
An Invisible Thread tells of the life-long friendship between a busy sales executive and a disadvantaged young boy, and how both of their lives were changed by what began as one small gesture of kindness. When Laura Schroff brushed by a young panhandler on a New York City corner one rainy afternoon, something made her stop and turn back. She took the boy to lunch at the McDonald's across the street that day. And she continued to go back, again and again for the next four years until both their...
Mother Teresa (Little People, Big Dreams, #15)
by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara
In this board book version of Mother Teresa--from the critically acclaimed Little People, BIG DREAMS series--discover the incredible life of this Nobel Peace Prize-winning nun, along with her message of love and charity. Agnes (later to become Mother Teresa) was born in Skopje, Macedonia. From an early age, she knew she wanted to dedicate herself to religion. She was fascinated by stories of missionaries helping people and wanted to do the same. She spent the rest of her life caring for the si...
Eleven-year-old Fern's rundown home borders a pristine forest, where her impoverished family hunts and forages for food. It's also her refuge from the crushing responsibility of caring for her wild younger brothers and PTSD-stricken stepfather. But when a fracking company rolls into town, Fern realizes that her special grove could be ripped away, and no one else seems to care. Her stepfather thinks a job with the frackers could help pull the family out of poverty. Her wealthy grandfather--who w...
Homelessness (Essential Library. Essential Issues) (Essential Issues)
by A M Buckley
Do the Work! Zero Hunger (21st Century Skills Library: Committing to the Sustainable Development Goals)
by Julie Knutson
The Second New Deal Great Depression for Kids America in the 1930's Grade 7 Children's American History
