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Being labeled as a killer is every Upakan’s dream.Being labeled as the killer of your chieftain’s son . . . not so much.Banished from his home at thirteen, Ayrion makes his way to the capital city of Aramoor in hopes of starting a new life. With high aspirations of making a name for himself, he soon discovers how dangerous and unforgiving those streets can be.Can he learn to navigate Aramoor’s treacherous underbelly before it reaches up and...

A tiny piece of paper from the year 2019 might not sound very interesting to most people. But Max and Oscar, who are Bluggsville's sharpest sleuths, aren't most people! Max has a hunch that this ancient patch of paper might be valuable and extremely rare. Max is right. This isn't just any old piece of paper. It's a strange, sticky thing called a postage stamp, and it's more than 400 years old! It's an exciting discovery, but before long, it leads...

Four determined homeless children make a life for themselves in Chennai, India.

Banished from his home at thirteen, Ayrion makes his way to the capital city of Aramoor in hopes of starting a new life. With high aspirations of making a name for himself, he soon discovers how dangerous and unforgiving those streets can be. Can he learn to navigate Aramoor's treacherous underbelly before it reaches up and swallows him whole?

"I ain't knocked round the city streets all my life for nothin'," proclaims Ragged Dick, the fast-talking boy hero of Horatio Alger's classic rags-to-riches tale. Dick is a plucky street boy who smokes, gambles, and speaks ungrammatically--but he is also honest and hardworking, striving not for wealth and status, but for a steady job, a decent place to sleep, and respectability. A quintessential boy's novel of adventure, romance, and coming of age,...

This is the true story of Hamilton, now eighteen years old, who ran away from his home in Salvador, Brazil when he was six and ended up living on the streets, begging for food and money and witnessing murder, death squad actions, and the effects of illegal drugs.

Leaving his village in rural India to find a better education, mathematically gifted, twelve-year-old Akash ends up at the New Delhi train station, where he relies on Saraswati, the Hindu goddess of knowledge, to guide him as he negotiates life on the street, resists the temptations of easy money, and learns whom he can trust.

In the jungle outside the growing city of Chandigarh, twelve-year-old street child Ram discovers a hidden rock garden, befriends its creator--a factory worked named Nek--and tries to save Nek's garden when it is threatened with destruction.

Nickel lives by his wits on the streets, blackmailing pedophiles and selling marijuana, but when a young girl, Arrow, needs help finding her runaway sister, Nickel's investigation leads to the dark world of child traffickers.