Homelessness, Runaways & Poverty

Raphael is a dumpsite boy. He spends his days wading through mountains of steaming trash, sifting it, sorting it, breathing it, sleeping next to it.... 

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....

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

This special audio issue of a best-selling and award-winning Australian classic from popular author Steven Herrick is a life-affirming look at humanity, generosity and love.... 

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....

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....

Dinah's whole world is upside down, dead things and angry men and cuts all over her head that are beginning to sting....   

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.... 

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

Charlie Grant’s older sister is getting married this weekend at their family home, and Charlie can’t wait - for the first time in years, all four of her older siblings will be under one roof....

Ezra wakes one day to find his sister gone. No note, no sign, nothing but an email address hidden somewhere only he would find it....

Underprivileged and keenly self-aware, SoCal fourteen-year-old Layla Bailey isn't used to being noticed. Except by mean girls who tweet about her ragged appearance. All she wants to do is indulge in her love of science....

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....

Caitlin can't afford to leave this dreamland, this half-sleeping state where everything and everyone can be kept at arm's length....

When a black South American soccer star signs on to a team in the country’s racist south, headlines blare....

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

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....

This is the sequel to Freckles - the moving story of a young girl whose kindness and wholesome philosophy brightens the lives of everyone she meets....

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....

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....