Title: Fly Away Home
Author: Bunting, Eve
Publisher: Clarion Books (1993)
ISBN: 0395664152
32 pgs.
Notes: A homeless boy and his father live in an airport, moving from terminal to terminal hoping not to be caught. The boy’s father leaves him with another homeless family while he works part-time as a janitor, and the boy regains hope when watching a trapped bird find its freedom.

Title: Circle of Friends
Author: Carmi, Giora
Publisher: Star Bright Books (2006)
ISBN: 978-1595720603
40 pgs.
Notes: This picture book follows the chain of good events that happen after a young boy gives his muffin to a homeless man. The man saves a few crumbs for a bird and later gives a baby bird a sunflower seed. The baby bird leaves the sunflower seed in the window box in front of the young boy’s window, and the seed blossoms into a beautiful sunflower.

Title: A Shelter in Our Car
Author: Gunning, Monica
Publisher: Book Press (2004)
ISBN: 0892391898
32 pgs.
Notes: After he father dies, Zettie and her mother move from Jamaica to America and live in the backseat of their card. The picture book follows their lives through everyday details like scavenging for food, washing in the park bathroom, and being harassed by police.

Title: Lives Turned Upside Down: Homeless Children In Their Own Words and Photographs
Author: Hubbard, Jim
Publisher: Aladdin (2007_
ISBN: 1416968385
40 pgs.
Notes: Four kids, ages 9 to 12, talk about their personal experiences with homelessness and life in shelters. This work is part of a project that teaches homeless children photography and gives them cameras.

Title: Bird Springs
Author: Marsden, Carolyn
Publisher: Viking Juvenile (2007)
ISBN: 978-0670061938
128 pgs.
Notes: When a two-year drought drives Gregory, his mother, and his baby sister off Bird Springs, their Navajo reservation, they move into a Tucson shelter. Gregory struggles to make friends while taking solace in art therapy classes.

Title: The Lady in the Box
Author: McGovern, Ann
Publisher: Turtle Books (1999)
ISBN: 1890515159
40 pgs.
Notes: A brother and sister take matters into their own hands and deliver food and clothing to Dorrie, a homeless woman who has set up a cardboard box over a heating grate on the sidewalk. When the family later sees Dorrie, the boy realizes he has made a difference in someone else’s life.

Title: Darnell Rock Reporting
Author: Myers, Walter Dean
Publisher: Yearling (1996)
ISBN: 0440411572
144 pgs.
Notes: Thirteen-year-old Darnell, a struggling middle school student, writes an article about a homeless man for the school newspaper and changes his attitude about schooling.

Title: Gracie's Girl
Author: Wittlinger, Ellen
Publisher: Aladdin (2002)
ISBN: 0689849605
192 pgs.
Notes: At the insistence of her parents, sixth-grader Bess volunteers at a local homeless shelter, where she befriends an older woman named Gracie. Bess’s work doesn’t fit in with her plans to become popular, but as time passes, she grows less concerned about her popularity and more concerned with ways to help Gracie find food and shelter.