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41) Saraswati's way
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Leaving his village in rural India to find a better education, mathematically gifted, twelve-year-old Akash ends up at the New Delhi train station, where he relies on Saraswati, the Hindu goddess of knowledge, to guide him as he negotiates life on the street, resists the temptations of easy money, and learns whom he can trust.
42) Street Boys
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 18
Formats
Description
In 1943, in Naples, Italy, a handful of abandoned children left behind in the bombed-out city joins forces with Corporal Steve Connors, an American soldier cut off from his unit, to take on the German Army advancing on the city.
43) Outside in
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Description
In the jungle outside the growing city of Chandigarh, twelve-year-old street child Ram discovers a hidden rock garden, befriends its creator--a factory worked named Nek--and tries to save Nek's garden when it is threatened with destruction.
Author
Series
Petra Connor volume 1
Pub. Date
c1998
Description
Twelve-year-old Billy Straight, a street kid who has fled a life of abuse and chaos at home, is forced to run for his life when he witnesses the vicious murder of a woman who turns out to be the ex-wife of a television celebrity.
45) Nickel plated
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Nickel lives by his wits on the streets, blackmailing pedophiles and selling marijuana, but when a young girl, Arrow, needs help finding her runaway sister, Nickel's investigation leads to the dark world of child traffickers.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"After an abusive, neglected childhood spent on welfare and in and out of homelessness in Alaska, raised by a mother who believed she was the reincarnation of the Virgin Mary, Carrot Quinn moved out on her own. She found a sense of belonging with a bunch of straight-edge anarchists who taught her how to traverse the country by freight trains, sleep in fields under the stars, and find her food by foraging in dumpsters. Her new life was one of thrilling...
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"Italy, 1943. The Nazi occupation has cemented its grip on the devastated city of Naples. Giuseppe DiPietra, a curator in the National Archives, has a subversive plan to aid the Allies. If he's discovered, forced labor or swift execution. Lucia Pastone, secretary for the Italian Fascist government, is risking her own life in secret defiance of orders. And Lucia's father, Aldo, is a black marketeer who draws Giuseppe and Lucia into the underworld--for...
50) Tunnel kids
Author
Pub. Date
c2001
Description
Presents an examination of the lives of children who live in the drainage tunnels that connect the Mexican and American border cities of Nogales, Sonora, and Nogales, Arizona.