Homelessness, Runaways & Poverty

Holly Black follows her breakout debut, Tithe, with a rich, harrowing, and compulsively readable parable of betrayal, abuse, friendship, and love....

What was once the Western United States is now home to the Republic, a nation perpetually at war with its neighbors. Born into an elite family in one of the Republic's wealthiest districts, 15-year-old June is a prodigy being groomed for success in the Republic's highest military circles....

When Margo Roth Spiegelman beckons Quentin Jacobsen in the middle of the night - dressed like a ninja and plotting an ingenious campaign of revenge - he follows her. After a lifetime of loving Margo from afar, things are finally looking up for Q - until day breaks and she has vanished....

On a night of wild storms, two troubled figures escape from captivity. One is a 15-year-old boy, Samuel Miles, a.k.a. "Smiler", wrongly convicted of theft and sent to a young offenders institution. The other is a cheetah, Yarra, a restless resident of Longleat Wildlife Park....

Parisian teenager Lou has an IQ of 160, OCD tendencies, and a mother who has suffered from depression for years. But Lou is about to change her life....

Tin escapes ever deeper into a subterranean world of darkness and troubling secrets....

I’m not just Allie Grace anymore. A beast slumbers beneath the surface of my skin. I have new urges and impulses. Not to mention a hot temper that flares up at the slightest provocation. But that’s not all - apparently, I’m also mated....

Allison is in danger at home. Her stepmother has run away and her father is getting worse. So she runs away too and with no where to live finds herself hiding out, miles from home, in an elderly woman’s shed....

When 15-year-old Romeo's mother leaves and doesn't return, he finds himself homeless and trying to survive on the streets. Mute and terrified, his silence makes him vulnerable, and one night, he is beaten by a gang of kids, only to be rescued by a boy who pledges to take care of him....

Shifted Rule is the stunning conclusion to Elena Lawson’s number one best-selling wolf shifter series, The Wolves of Forest Grove....

A high-stakes story of star-crossed lovers from Simone Elkeles, the New York Times best-selling author of the Perfect Chemistry series. To escape his abusive stepdad, bad boy Ryan Hess runs from his tiny Texas border town to Mexico....

The stakes have never been higher. The games are do or die. Cory’s life has become one big gamble, and he’s on a path he never intended to take. Cory must decide whether he's willing to risk his life to save his friends and the one he loves, or save himself.

Pan Smraďoch patří do kategorie hodně divných románových hrdinů. Žije na lavičce v parku a svému jménu dělá opravdu čest. Je...

Written with humour and heart, Sofa Surfer looks at what it means to be homeless. Fifteen-year-old Tyler's teenage angst turns to outright rebellion when his family leaves London for a new life in Yorkshire....

Running away from her past, Elisa finds herself homeless in Hawaii. The streets aren't what they seem, though—even in paradise—and cops make her stay in a "homeless park." She's only 17 and with a man she hardly knows, but they must learn to work together....

Following a devastating betrayal, Beth Bradley, a sixteen-year-old graffiti artist, is suspended from school....

Tana lives in a world where walled cities called Coldtowns exist. In them, quarantined monsters and humans mingle. The only problem is, once you pass through Coldtown's gates, you can never leave....

For fans of Lovecraft Country and Candyman comes a witchy story full of Black girl magic as one girl's dark ability to summon the dead offers her a chance at a new life, while revealing to her an even darker future....

My name is Sierra Reeves, and my life is built on lies. I’m not a regular girl. My telekinetic powers can flip the precarious balance between good and evil. On the run from those that seek to use me as a weapon, I seek protection from the magic-bearing marshal Gavin McLoughlin....

Her name is Odd. Twelve-year-old Audrey Wyatt bears the unfortunate nickname "Odd", a name even her bar-hopping, alcoholic mother uses when she's sober enough to recognize the girl....

When you live in your car the way 18-year-old Eddie and his sister Maya do, the rules are pretty simple: lay low, trust no one, and make sure you have plenty of duct tape on hand....

Pen's life is about secrets: the secret of the city's spirits, deities and monsters, living just beyond the notice of modern Londoners; the secret of Pen's intricate scars that disfigure her so cruelly....

An astonishing new voice in teen literature, writing what is sure to be one of the most talked-about debuts of the year....

Humanity is one secret society away from extinction. The children of Atlantis use magic to keep us safe. If they make it through the Academy.... 

A shimmering, ultimately joyful audiobook, a story of journeying towards courage and freedom, of finding the will to live a life beyond expectation....