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Newbery Honor Book volume 1959
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
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Armand is a homeless man in Paris who is taken in by a lonely little family which is also homeless. He has no use for the little "starlings" that would take over his heart, but he falls in love with them and helps them through the winter.
2) Great joy
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
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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.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
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Walls, who spent years trying to hide her childhood experiences, allows the story to spill out in this recollection of growing up. From her current perspective as a contributor to MSNBC online, she remembers the poverty, hunger, jokes, and bullying she and her siblings endured, and she looks back at her parents: her flighty, self-indulgent mother, a Pollyanna unwilling to assume the responsibilities of parenting, and her father, troubled, brilliant...
10) Crenshaw
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 3
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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 has come back into Jackson's life to help him. But is an imaginary friend enough to save this family from losing everything?
11) Room One
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
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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 in western Nebraska, everyone understands that if you...
12) The love letters
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"Marlena Wenger, a young aunt from the Beachy Amish caring for her infant niece, finds comfort and hope from an Old Order Amish mother and her family who extend friendship to a homeless man, whose few possessions include a collection of love letters"--
13) Holes
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
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As further evidence of his family's bad fortune which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnate 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.
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Health watch volume no. 103
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
Year to year, homelessness continues to be a challenge facing the United States. It is estimated that on a given night in January 2016, 549,928 people were experiencing homelessness in the U.S. About 10,550 homeless individuals were located in Colorado, representing a 6 percent increase in the homeless population in Colorado from 2015. Not only are the homelessness rates rising in Colorado, but morbidity and mortality rates have also been shown to...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
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"A failed prodigy and child of divorce, Francesca Dunn is also an adolescent like any other, trying to find her identity and figure out her place in the world. On night Chester, a visionary homeless man (or an insane one, depending on your point of view), "sees" Francesca hovering over the river, bathed in celestial light. Days later, as Francesca serves meals to the needy in a local cafe, Chester falls to his knees before her in adoration. Word spreads,...
20) Almost home
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 6
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Newbery Honor winner Joan Bauer's new novel will touch your heartWhen twelve-year-old Sugar's grandfather dies and her gambling father takes off yet again, Sugar and her mother lose their home in Missouri. They head to Chicago for a fresh start, only to discover that fresh starts aren't so easy to come by for the homeless. Nevertheless, Sugar's mother has taught her to be grateful no matter what, so Sugar does her best. With the help of a rescue dog,...