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Books : Teens : Social Issues : Runaway & Homeless

• Almost Lost: The True Story Of An Anonymous Teenager's Life On The Streets (Avon Flare Book)

  Beatrice Sparks

  

  Who in his right mind wants to talk to a shrink? I don't want to talk about anything. I don't want to feel anything, taste anything ... or anything. The lyrics "just dying to die" run around in my brain day and night...

  Fifteen-year-old Sam is in pain. He comes to the therapist's office unwillingly, angry, depressed, and filled with guilt over his own self-destructive behavior. He is being drawn deeper and deeper into a black hole of despair from which he sees no way out.

  The Road Back

  This is the Real-life story of Sam's Recovery, told from tapes of his therapy sessions. It tells what drove him to leave home, how he survived on the street, and why he was desperate to escape from the brutality of the gang that had become his "family" and from the torment of his own self-loathing. For every teen who has experienced the pain and loneliness of a no-way-out darkness, and for all those who love them, here is the light that can lead the way back.

  
   

• Holden Caulfield (Major Literary Characters)

  
  There is little disagreement among critics that Huck Finn sought freedom. The debate seems to be whether or not he sought freedom for or from some things--society, family, respectability, daily reality, growing up, and dying. This text gathers together some of the best critical work regarding Mark Twain's unforgettable character Huckleberry Finn.

  Huck Finn is part of the Major Literary Characters series, edited by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University; Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Professor of English, New York University Graduate School. This series is the only major collection of criticism on widely studied fictional figures from world literature, bringing together a diverse array of the finest critical writing from around the world. Each volume includes Harold Bloom's essay "The Analysis of Character" and introductory essays on title characters.

  
   

• Race in Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Social Issues in Literature)

  
  
   

• The Simple Gift

  Steven Herrick

  

  I'm not proud.
  I'm sixteen, and soon
  to be homeless.

  Weary of his life with his alcoholic, abusive father, sixteen-year-old Billy packs a few belongings and hits the road, hoping for something better than what he left behind. He finds a home in an abandoned freight train outside a small town, where he falls in love with rich, restless Caitlin and befriends a fellow train resident, "Old Bill," who slowly reveals a tragic past. When Billy is given a gift that changes everything, he learns not only to how forge his own path in life, but the real meaning of family.

  
   

• Anyplace but Here: Young, Alone, and Homeless : What to Do

  Ellen Switzer

  
  Numerous interviews with teenage runaways inform a close-up look at the plight of the more than one million youngsters under eighteen living on the streets of America, accompanied by tips on help available, minors' legal rights, AIDS awareness, and coping strategies.
  
   

• Children Of Welfare

  Joan J. Johnson

  
  Describes what it means to grow up with parents on welfare, the history of the welfare system, and its future.
  
   

• Homelessness: Whose Problem Is It? (Issue and Debate)

  Ted Gottfried

  
  Discusses the issue of homelessness, examining who the homless are, how they become that way, and differing views on how to deal with the problem.
  
   

• Missing and Murdered Children (Impact Books)

  Margaret O. Hyde

  
  Discusses missing and abducted children, abused children, and murder victims, and outlines ways to prevent and cope with these increasing problems.
  
   

• The Poor in America (Issues for the 90s)

  Suzanne M. Coil

  
  Discusses poverty in the past, present, and future, and those whom it affects.
  
   

• Poverty (Introducing Issues With Opposing Viewpoints)

  
  
   

• Welfare System, The (Issue and Debate)

  Marianne Levert

  
  
   

• Kids Without Homes

  Joan J. Johnson

  
  Examines homelessness in today's society as it affects our nation's youth, their education, upbringing, opportunities for employment, enmeshment with crime, and prospects for ameliorating their situation.
  
   

• The Rich-Poor Divide (Global Issues)

  Teresa Garlake

  
  Colour and black and white illustrations accompany another title from the GLOBAL ISSUES series which takes a detailed look at what is meant by the Rich-Poor Divide, describing and explaining why there is an unequal distribution of wealth between and within countries, with up-to-date examples, graphs, charts, media and fact boxes.