A columnist describes her adolescence as a runaway in New York City, explaining why she exchanged her home for life on the city streets, her struggle to balance school, the shelter system, and her battle to rescue herself from street life.
Twenty-four essays present opposing arguments on issues related to homelessness, covering aspects of the extent of the problem, factors that contribute to it, what housing policies will benefit the homeless, and what policies will best reduce homelessness.
Contains facts, tables, charts, and statistics on aspects of homelessness in the U.S., covering demographics, employment and poverty, housing issues, federal government aid, laws, and health.
A gay teenage boy and a fragile teenage girl meet while living on the streets of New York City and eventually decide to take a road trip across America to discover whether or not the world is a beautiful place.
The author describes his personal experiences as he and his friend spent five months traveling as homeless men from Denver to Washington DC, and describes the hopelessness and despair of those they encountered on their journey and the number of persons who turned them away rather than help them.
Jesse "Street Angel" Sanchez, a young, homeless skateboarding girl, fights ninja gangs, evil geologists, ancient gods, and others to find the Holy Grail of cardboard boxes.
Seventeen-year-old loner Maggy Klass, who frequently seeks refuge from her alcoholic mother's apartment by sitting and drawing in a local cafe, becomes involved in a destructive relationship with a charismatic homeless youth named Cole.
Custis, a homeless fugitive from a pornography producer, hits the road with Curl, a child prostitute, and her boyfriend Boobie who has just killed his parents and kidnapped his infant brother, but their quest for a better life meets with little success until Custis makes an unlikely friend.
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 hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself.
Benjamin's playful experiment to find how many things he can do with an empty paper bag leads him to an informative encounter with a bag lady who has no home of her own.
