homeless persons

A fourteen-year-old British street person with extraordinary powers of observation and self-control must face murderous thugs connected with a past he has tried to forget, when his skills with a knife earned him the nickname, Blade.

When soldiers attack a small village in Zimbabwe, Deo goes on the run with Innocent, his older, mentally disabled brother, carrying little but a leather soccer ball filled with money, and after facing prejudice, poverty, and tragedy, it is in soccer that Deo finds renewed hope.

Fifteen-year-old Tyrell, who is living in a Bronx homeless shelter with his spaced-out mother and his younger brother, tries to avoid temptation so he does not end up in jail like his father.

Sixteen-year-old Kid, who lives on the streets of Brooklyn, loves Felix, a guitarist and junkie who disappears, leaving Kid the prime suspect in an arson investigation, but a year later Scout arrives, giving Kid a second chance.

Twelve-year-old Clare flees an unhappy home life and tries to survive on the streets of Atlantic City with a small gang of homeless kids, each of whom has a secret reason for distrusting society.

Details the grave situation facing homeless children and their parents who live in shelters and welfare hotels.

When Dan and his parents can no longer pay their mortgage, they end up homeless and living in a local tent city. Their situation gets worse when the leader of the tent city is brutally beaten. Who is trying to shut down the tent city, and why?.

Discusses the problem of homelessness in the United States, the work of shelters, and the particular problems of homeless children.

Examines the life of homeless people living in the subway, railroad, and sewage tunnels under New York City. Includes interviews with individuals about their daily lives, the living conditions, their attempt to survive, how they cope with the police and homeless agencies, and search for meaning.

Abandoned on the streets of Rio de Janeiro, thirteen-year-old Alex joins a group of children like him and finds himself adapting to his new life.