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Note: All call numbers are for the Allen County Public Library, Fort Wayne, Indiana

CALL #	AUTHOR	TITLE	DATE
J	Ackerman, Karen	The Leaves in October After her mother leaves them, nine-year-old Livvy struggles to understand and forgive as her father loses his job and takes her and her younger brother to live in a shelter for homeless people.	1991
J BALLI	BAlliett, Blue	Hold Fast 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.	2013
J BAUER	Bauer, Joan	Almost Home Sixth-grader Sugar and her mother lose their beloved house and experience the harsh world of homelessness.	2012
J PAPERBK BRENN	Brenner, Summer	Ivy: Homeless In San Francisco When Ivy and her father are evicted from their San Francisco apartment, they feel lucky to finally wind up at the home of their friends, Eugenia and Oscar Orr.	2011
J CLEME	Clements, Andrew	Room One: A Mystery or Two 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.	2006
J	Creel, Ann Howard	A Ceiling of Stars In a series of letters and journal entries, twelve-year-old Vivien describes being abandoned by her mother and struggling to survive on the streets of a big city while searching for her family.	1999
J GRIME	Grimes, Nikki.	Rich Free is excited about a local poetry contest because of its cash prize, but when he and Dyamonde befriend a classmate who is homeless and living in a shelter, they rethink what it means to be rich or poor.	2009
J	Luger, Harriet Madelay	Bye, Bye, Bali Kai As her once-comfortable world becomes more and more frightening, eleven-year-old Suzie is almost as worried about losing her best friend as she is about her family being evicted from their apartment.	1996
J OCONN	O'Connor Barbara	How To Steal a Dog Living in the family car in their small North Carolina town after their father leaves them virtually penniless, Georgina, desperate to improve their situation and unwilling to accept her overworked mother's calls for patience, persuades her younger brother to help her in an elaborate scheme to get money by stealing a dog and then claiming the reward that the owners are bound to offer.	2007
J	Powell, E. Sandy	A Chance to Grow When Joe, his sister Gracey, and their mother are evicted from their apartment and left homeless, they live in shelters and on the streets, looking for work and a permanent home.	1992
J RHUDA	Rhuday-Perkovich, Olugbemisola	8th Grade Superzero After half-heartedly joining his church youth group's project at a homeless shelter near his Brooklyn middle school, eighth-grade "loser" Reggie McKnight is inspired to run for school office on a platform of making a real difference in the community.	2010
J	Wilson, Jacqueline	Elsa, Star of the Shelter! Noisy, brash, and a troublemaker, ten-year-old Elsa uses her loud voice to warn of a fire at the homeless shelter where she lives with her family.	1994
J	Wittlinger, Ellen	Gracie's Girl As she starts middle school, Bess volunteers to work on the school musical in hopes of fitting in, but when she and a friend get to know an elderly homeless woman, Bess changes her mind about what is really important.	2000
J362.5 AGNES	Agness, Phyllis	No Place at the Table: America's Homeless Children "According to the Institute for Children and Poverty and other reliable sources, every night over one million children in the United States are homeless. This is a devastatingly large problem, yet homeless children are a hidden population within a prosperous country. The lives of these homeless/transient children are different from most children living in poverty."--Cover back.	2008
J362.5 LYNET	Lynette, Rachel	What To Do When Your Family Loses Its Home Tough topics such as having to move into a shelter are dealt with in a sensitive and encouraging manner. This book also gives some ideas of what to expect when a family moves in with relatives while they get back on their feet.	2010
J362.5	Wolf, Bernard	Homeless Fortunately, Mikey and his family are referred to the Henry Street Settlement Urban Family Center on the Lower East Side in New York City, where they get a temporary rent-free apartment and help in the search for permanent housing. Bernard Wolf tells the story of their stay at Henry Street in first-person narrative and vivid full-color photographs.	1995
J362.7	Berck, Judith	No Place to Be: Voices of Homeless Children Details the grave situation facing homeless children and their parents who live in shelters and welfare hotels.	1992
J362.7	Chalofsky, Margie	Changing Places: A Kid's View of Shelter Living This book captures the voices of eight homeless children, ages 6 to 13.	1992
J362.7	Greenberg, Keith Elliot	Erik Is Homeless	1992
J362.7	Hubbard, Jim	Lives Turned Upside Down	1996
J362.7	Kimiko	Home Is Where We Live: Life in a Shelter Through a Young Girl's Eyes	1995
J363.348 KALMA	Kalman, Bobbie	Living in Shelters This book examines what life is like for children living in relief shelters after natural disasters.	2010
J363.58	Weitzman, Elizabeth	Let's Talk About Staying in a Shelter	1996
JB J2342W	Wheeler, Jill	Lebron James	2007
JB T2145P	Pearce, Q L	Hannah Taylor: Helping the Homeless	2008
JE	Bunting, Eve	December	1997
JE	Bunting, Eve	Fly Away Home	1991
JE COLE	Cole, Brock	Good Enough to Eat	2007
JE	daCosta Nunez, Ralph	Our Wish	1997
JE DAY	Day, Marie	Edward, the "Crazy" Man	2002
JE DICAM	DiCamillo, Kate	Great Joy	2007
JE KING	King, Stephan Michael	Mutt Dog!	2002
JE	Nunez, Ralph da Costa	Cooper's Tale	2000
JE PETER	Peters, Bernadette	Broadway Barks	2008
JE	Spangler, Ruth	Mandy's House: The Story of a Homeless Family Who Finds a New Place to Live	1990
JE WILLI	Williams, Laura E.	The Can Man After watching a homeless man collect empty soft drink cans for the redemption money, a young boy decides to collect cans himself to earn money for a skateboard until he has a change of heart.	2010
JER STEGA	Stegall, Billy	Pat and Pea Soup	2003

Non-Print Materials

Note: All call numbers are for the Allen County Public Library, Fort Wayne, Indiana

CALL #	AUTHOR	TITLE	DATE
PLAYAWAY J CLEME	Clements, Andrew	Room One	2006
PLAYAWAY J VOIGT	Voigt, Cynthia	Homecoming	2007

Websites

Fort Wayne Rescue Mission
http://www.rescueministries.us/

Fort Wayne Vincent Village
http://www.vincentvillage.org/default.aspx

Interfaith Hospitality Network of Greater Fort Wayne
http://www.ihnfamily.org/index.htm

If you need help finding these or other Library materials, please check with anyone in Children's Services. We look forward to seeing you at the Library!

This list was created and is maintained by Children's Services Librarians.
General comments and suggestions can be sent to Becky White at bwhite@acpl.info, or to Mary R. Voors, Manager, Children's Services at mvoors@acpl.info.