Thanks to everyone who sent suggestions for a social action project on
homelessness. Following is a list of the books, websites, and movies that
I used for my class.
Tracey Luehrs
Student-College of St. Catherine
St. Paul, Minnesota
mimla@charter.net
Non-Fiction
Berck, Judith. No Place to Be: Voices of Homeless
Children. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1992. 148 pages.
Bess, Stacey. Nobody Don't Love Nobody: Lessons on Love from the School
with No Name. New York: Onjinjinkta Publishing, 1994. 226 pages.
Gottfried, Ted. Homelessness: Whose Problem Is It? (Issue and Debate
Series) Brookfield, CT: The Millbrook Press, 1999. 128 pages.
Hubbard, Jim. Lives Tuned Upside Down: Homeless Children in Their Own
Words and Photographs. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996. 38 pages.
Kozol, Jonathan. Rachel and Her Children: Homeless Families in
America. New York: Fawcett Columbine, 1988. 261 pages.
Kroloff, Charles A. 54 Ways You Can Help the Homeless. Southport,
CT: Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, 1993. 96 pages.
McDonough, Pat. Without Keys: My 15 Weeks With the Street
People. Hopkins, MN: Terra Sancta Press, Inc., 1996. 393 pages.
Nichelason, Margery G. Homeless or Hopeless? (Pro/Con
Series) Minneapolis, MN: Lerner Publications Company, 1994. 112 pages.
O'Connor, Karen. Homeless Children. (Lucent Overview Series) San Diego,
CA: Lucent Books, 1989. 79 pages.
O'Neill, Teresa. The Homeless: Distinguishing Between Fact and
Opinion. (Opposing Viewpoints Juniors Series) San Diego, CA: Greenhaven
Press, Inc., 1990. 32 pages.
Wolf, Bernard. Homeless. New York: Orchard Books, 1995. 44 pages.
Fiction
Grant, Cynthia D. Mary Wolf. New York: Aladdin Paperbacks, 1995. 216 pages.
Hahn, Mary Downing. December Stillness. New York: Avon Books, 1988. 181
pages.
Spinelli, Jerry. Maniac Magee. New York: Little, Brown and Company,
1990. 184 pages.
Voight, Cynthia. Homecoming. New York: Simon Pulse, 1981. 402 pages.
Wittlinger, Ellen. Gracie's Girl. New York: Aladdin Paperbacks,
2002. 186 pages.
Zindel, Paul. A Begonia for Miss Applebaum. New York: Harper & Row,
1989. 180 pages.
Movies
Singer, Marc (director and screen writer), "Dark Days," Palm Pictures,
2001. 84 minutes.
"Homeless Home Movie." Directed by Pat Hennessey, Minneapolis, MN: Media
Visions, Inc. 1997. 84 minutes.
Websites
Minnesota Coalition for the Homeless www.mnhomelesscoalition.org
National Coalition for the Homeless www.nationalhomeless.org
National Alliance to End Homelessness www.endhomelessness.org
Hobson's Choice: The Game You Can't Leave!
www.realchangenews.org/hobsons/index.html
Real Change News: Puget Sound's Newspapers of the Poor and Homeless
www.realchangenews.org/issue/current/index.html
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