Product Description: Describes the situation of homeless young people, including children whose families have lost their homes, teenagers who no longer have families, and people who have found improvised families while homeless.Title: Kids Growing Up Without a HomeAuthor: Fields, JuliannaPublisher: Mason CrestPublication Date: 2009/10/15Number of Pages: 64Binding Type: LIBRARYLibrary of Congress: 200902742...read more

Two girls and two boys, ages nine to twelve, share their personal experiences with homelessness and life in shelters

Product Description: Briefly describes various kinds of shelters for people without permanent homes and discusses how to deal with living in one.

Discusses why children become homeless in the United States, how they live, and what can be done to help them (view table of contents)

Interviews, stories, and poems by children reflecting on their own personal experiences provide a revealing look at what it means to be homeless.

Discusses the causes and prevention of homelessness and what is being done to help solve this problem

Describes who the homeless are and the personal, economic, and political factors affecting them.