homeless persons

Maxx is a homeless man who lives in a cardboard box. As sexy Julie Winters, a freelance social worker, tries to help him, he has delusions about being a superhero called The Maxx, travelling to the "Outback, " fighting a villain named Mr. Gone, and saving Julie over and over. But are they really delusions?.

Presents a trio of interlocking stories about three men-- Roberto Silva, a down-sized bank security guard, his co-worker Gus Hernandez, and 1960s poet Silver Mendez-- who are tying to survive on the streets of Oakland.

On Saturdays, Delia and Jesse help Shoebox Sam, who teaches them about charity and love by not only repairing shoes for paying customers, but also giving poor and homeless people the dignity--and footwear--they need.

Sixth-grader Sugar and her mother lose their beloved house and experience the harsh world of homelessness.

When living with her mother's abusive boyfriend becomes unbearable, fifteen-year-old Selina Kyle, the future Catwoman, runs away and struggles to find her own identity while living on the streets of Gotham.

Lon Chaney Rodriguez is a typical thirteen-year-old until his mother, a security guard, is shot and killed and he becomes haunted by the feeling that he is letting her down by getting bad grades, skipping church, lying, and goofing off while worrying that he and his alcoholic, unemployed father will wind up homeless.

A street kid and a small cat experience fear, hunger, and pain in a dangerous subterranean world.

As further evidence of his family's bad fortune which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself.

A pessimistic boy thrown into a Texas juvenile detention camp on false charges embarks on a search for treasure, makes a new friend, and begins to see himself and life in a new light.

Living in the family car in their small North Carolina town after their father leaves them virtually penniless, Georgina, desperate to improve their situation and unwilling to accept her overworked mother's calls for patience, persuades her younger brother to help her in an elaborate scheme to get money by stealing a dog and then claiming the reward that the owners are bound to offer.