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Author
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
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.
262) A chance to shine
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A child's father changes the life of a homeless man by giving him a job.
263) My friend Andy
Author
Pub. Date
[2024].
Description
An unhoused person and his dog make new friends when they help a lost puppy find her way back home.
264) Pitch Black
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Antony Horton, an African-American homeless man living in a subway tunnel, describes his life on the streets.
Pub. Date
[2019]
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Description
Poems, stories, and art created by participants in the Lighthouse Writers Workshops held in Colorado. Workshops initially geared towards people experiencing homelessness and extreme poverty and then expanded to veterans, refugees, older adults, cancer patients and their caregivers, and people transitioning out of incarceration.
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