Street Children


  • Angelou, Maya.  "Harlem." (poem)
  • Beake, Lesley.  The Strollers.  (South Africa)
  • Bunting, Eve.  Your Move.
  • ---.  December.
  • Burgess, Melvin.  Smack.  (U.K. Junk)
  • Clark, Margaret.  Back on Track: Diary of a Street Kid. (Australia)
  • - - -.  Care Factor Zero.
  • Dickens, Charles.  Oliver Twist.
  • Doherty, Berlie.  Street Child.
  • Fenner, Carol.  King of Dragons.
  • Fox, Paula.  Monkey Island.
  • Hathorn, Libby.  Feral Kid.  ISBN 0340612673
  • Hathorn, Libby and Gregory Rogers.  Way Home.  (Australian picture book)
  • Hesse, Karen.  Come on Rain.
  • Hinojosa, Maria.  Crews.
  • Hinton, S.E.  The Outsiders.
  • Mikkelson, Ben.  Sparrow Hawk Red.  (Mexico)
  • Naidoo, Beverly.  No Turning Back.  (South Africa)
  • Paulsen, Gary.  The Crossing.
  • Scott Card, Orson.  Ender's Shadow.
  • Stretton, Hesba.  Alone in London.
  • - - -.  Jessica's First Prayer.  (19th Century)
  • - - -.  Lost Gyp.
  • Histories of the Orphan Trains.
  • Strachan, Ian.  Throwaways.  Set in the near future, parents dump their
  • children.
  • Swindells, Robert.  Stone Cold.  Puffin.  ISBN 0140362517
  • Williams, Vera .  Mama's New Chair.
  • Winters.  "Cinderelly."

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