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Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers, March 2004
Hardcover, 208 pages
ISBN-10: 0689841698
ISBN-13: 9780689841699
Grades: 7 - 7
Awards and Nominations
- ALA Best Books For Young Adults
- ALA Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers
- CCBC Choices (Cooperative Children's Book Council)
- Florida Teens Read Master List
- Iowa Teen Award Master List
- IRA Young Adults' Choices
- Kentucky Bluegrass Award Master List
- NYPL "Books for the Teen Age"
- Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults
- PSLA Fiction List
- Rhode Island Teen Book Award Nominee
- South Carolina Book Award Nominee
- Texas Tayshas High School Reading List
- YASIG Best of the Best (MO)
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Description
“A powerful and disturbing look at the downward spiral of despair that remains too common for too many teens (School Library Journal).”
Her street name is Maybe. She lives with a tribe of homeless teens—runaways and throwaways, kids who have no place to go other than the cold city streets, and no family except for one another. Abused, abandoned, and forgotten, they struggle against weather, hunger, and constant danger.
With the frigid winds of January comes a new girl: Tears, a twelve-year-old whose mother doesn’t believe her husband is abusive. As the other kids start to disappear—victims of violence, addiction, and exposure—Maybe tries to help Tears get off the streets…if it’s not already too late.
Her street name is Maybe. She lives with a tribe of homeless teens—runaways and throwaways, kids who have no place to go other than the cold city streets, and no family except for one another. Abused, abandoned, and forgotten, they struggle against weather, hunger, and constant danger.
With the frigid winds of January comes a new girl: Tears, a twelve-year-old whose mother doesn’t believe her husband is abusive. As the other kids start to disappear—victims of violence, addiction, and exposure—Maybe tries to help Tears get off the streets…if it’s not already too late.
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Browse Inside Can't Get There from Here"Strasser powerfully lays out the desperate realities of living on the street."
-- Denver Post
"Gritty and harsh..."
-- VOYA
"After reading this book, you'll feel as if you spent a few hours in the shoes of a homeless kid."
-- YM
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