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Title: Mr. Bow Tie
Author: Karen Barbour
Publisher: Harcourt, 1991
Grade Level: K-2
Description: A family befriends a homeless man living
on the streets, helping him find his family.
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Title: Fly Away Home
Author: Eve Bunting
Publisher: Clarion, 1991
Grade Level: K-2
Awards: ALA
Description: A homeless boy who lives in an airport
with his father, moving terminal to terminal trying not to be noticed, is
given hope when he sees a trapped bird find his freedom.
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Title: December
Author: Eve Bunting
Publisher: Harcourt, 1997
Grade Level: K-2
Awards: GK
Description: A homeless family’s luck changes after
they help an old woman who has even less than they do at Christmas.
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Title: Trupp
Author: Janell Cannon
Publisher: Harcourt, 1995
Grade Level: K-2, 3-4
Description: Disguised to protect his identity, Trupp
the fuzzhead encounters the world of humans. A story of social acceptance,
homeless people, determination and kindness.
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Title: Uncle Willie and the
Soup Kitchen
Author: Dyanne DiSalvo-Ryan
Publisher: Morrow, 1997
Grade Level: K-2
Description: A boy spends the day with Uncle Willie
in the soup kitchen where he works preparing and serving food for the
hungry.
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Title:
The Scarebird
Author: Sid Fleischman
Publisher: Greenwillow, 1988
Grade Level: 3-4
Description: A lonesome farmer creates a scarecrow to
be a friend until he makes friends with a homeless boy.
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Title: Runaways
Author: Keith Elliot Greenberg
Publisher: Lerner, 1995
Grade Level: 3-4, 5-6
Description: Disscusses why some young people run
away from troubled homes and what can happen to them and tells the stories
of several teenagers who found help at Noah’s Ark, a shelter run by
Sister Dolores Gartanutti.
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Title: Way Home
Author: Libby Hawthorne
Publishers: Crown, 1994
Grade Level: K-2
Description: Shane finds a no-name stray cat and
takes it through the dangers of the city to his home, a corner of an
alley.
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Title:
I Can Hear the Sun
Author: Patricia Polacco
Publisher: Philomel, 1996
Grade Level: K-2, 3-4
Description: Stephani Michelle, who cares for animals
and listens to the sun, believes the homeless child, Fondo, when he tells
her that the geese have invited him to fly away with them.
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Title:
Home: A Collaboration of Thirty Distinguished Authors and Illustrators of
Children’s Books
Author: Micheal J. Rosen (editor)
Publisher: HarperCollins, 1992
Grade Level: K-2, 3-4
Description: Thirteen authors and seventeen
illustrators celebrate the places and things that make up the home, in
support of Share Our Strength’s (SOS) fight against homelessness.
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Title:
We Are All in the Dumps With Jack and Guy
Author: Maurice Sendak
Publisher: HarperCollins, 1993
Grade Level: 3-4
Awards: ALA
Descriptions: Joins together two traditional nursery
rhymes with illustrations depicting the plight and eventual triumph of
orphaned and homeless children.
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Title: Sophie and the
Sidewalk Man
Author: Stephani Tolan
Publisher: Macmillan, 1992
Grade Level: K-2, 3-4
Description: Sophie is torn between her desire to buy
a beautiful toy hedgehog and her compassion for a hungry street person.
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Title: Homeless
Author: Bernard Wolf
Publisher: Orchard, 1995
Grade Level: 3-4
Description: This book talks powerfully both through
the written word and photographs about the world of the homeless.
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