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Tyrell

Coe Booth

Fifteen-year-old Tyrell, who is living in a Bronx homeless shelter with his spaced-out mother and his younger brother, tries to avoid temptation so he does not end up in jail like his father.

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The Glass Castle

Jeannette Walls

The author recalls her life growing up in a dysfunctional family with an alcohol father and distant mother and describes how she and her siblings had to fend for themselves until they finally found th

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Becoming Chloe

Catherine Ryan Hyde

A gay teenage boy and a fragile teenage girl meet while living on the streets of New York City and eventually decide to take a road trip across America to discover whether or not the world is a beauti

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Learning Joy From Dogs without Collars

Lauralee Summer

Relates the author's experiences growing up with an unwed, homeless mother, attending Harvard, finding her father, and finding her place in the world.

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Rule of the Bone

Russell Banks

Novel about a homeless youth on the edge of the society.

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33 Snowfish

Adam Rapp

Custis, a homeless fugitive from a pornography producer, hits the road with Curl, a child prostitute, and her boyfriend Boobie who has just killed his parents and kidnapped his infant brother, but the

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The Blue Mirror

Kathe Koja

Seventeen-year-old loner Maggy Klass, who frequently seeks refuge from her alcoholic mother's apartment by sitting and drawing in a local cafe, becomes involved in a destructive relationship with a ch

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Rule of the Bone

Russell Banks

The story of a troubled fourteen-year-old boy who, upon leaving an abusive homelife, lives on the edge of society, struggling to find himself.

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Holes

Louis Sachar

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 fir

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Holes

Louis Sachar

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 fir

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