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More information is available on the web and in the Toronto Public Library - including both books and videos:

Web | Videos | Research
Books:
Grades K-3 | Grades 4-8 | Grades 9-12


Web:
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Directories:

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Videos:

  • A Fine Line, Hostel Outreach Program, 1995 (Toronto Public Library)
  • Ryan, 2004 by NFB
  • No Address 1988, NFB
  • No Place to Go, 1992 NFB
  • The Street: A Film with the Homeless, 1997 NFB
  • No Place Called Home. NFB
  • Working Like Crazy NFB
  • The Homeless Home Movie, 1996
  • Homeless to Harvard, the Liz Murray Story, 2003
  • Shelter from the Storm, 2001 Brink Inc

 

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Books:
For students in grades K-3

  • Home, by Jean Harrison
  • Soul Moon Soup, by Lindsay Lee Johnson
  • Heck, Superhero, by Martine Leavitt
  • Mutt Dog! Words and pictures by Stephen Michael King
  • Why do People Live on the Streets? By Kaye Stearman
  • Rights in the Home, by Emma Haughton and Penny Clarke
  • Rosie, The Shopping Cart Lady, by Chia Martin
  • The Cowboy Kid, by Tibo Gilles
  • A House for A Mouse, by Kathleen N. Daly
  • Stay, Keeper’s Story, by Lowry

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For students in grades 4-8

  • Buddy is a Stupid Name for a Girl, by Willo Davis Roberts
  • The Double Life of Zoe Flynn, by Janet Lee Carey
  • Sleep Rough Tonight by Ian Bone
  • Tomorrow Maybe, by Brian James
  • Can’t Get There from Here by Todd Strasser (age 12+)

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For students in grades 9-12

Reading a book Fiction:
  • Helicopter Man, by Elizabeth Fensham

Non Fiction:

  • Catch Us Before We Fall, the Toronto Youth Cabinet’s 2005 Report on Youth Homelessness
  • Poverty, Greenhaven Press, 2006
  • Cardboard Condo: How the Homeless Survive the Streets, by Robert C. Greene, 2005
  • How Can the Poor Be Helped? by Geoff Griffin, 2005
  • Poverty: Opposing viewpoints, Karen Balkin editor, 2004
  • Vancouver’s Hoboes, by Andrew Roddan, 2005
  • Down & Out, On the Road: the Homeless in American History, by Kenneth Kusmer
  • Home and Homelessness in the Medieval and Renaissance World, University of Notre Dame Press 2004

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