homeless teenagers

Fourteen-year-old Paul, having run away from his abusive father and lived on the roof of a convenience store for a year, is picked up by police after slitting his wrists and begins a round of struggles in Chicago's system of youth homes before making the decision to break the cycle and try for a better life.

Follows a group of teenagers living on the streets of Los Angeles as they deal with the hardships of being homeless.

Living on the streets, Maddie forms an unlikely family and finds that it takes more than good intentions to make things work.

A graphic novel in which Helen, a homeless girl who feels a link to author Beatrix Potter, flees her father's sexual abuse and follows the path the writer took on her own escape into a new life in the Lake District of England.

Janice Erlbaum recounts her experiences working with the residents of a homeless shelter she lived at more than twenty years earlier, reflecting on her friendship with one troubled young woman who reminded Janice of the girl she used to be.

When his emotionally volatile relationship with his mother ends with him being kicked out of the house, sixteen-year-old Dylan meets three other teenagers while struggling to survive on the streets and must determine which of them he can trust.

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.