New Perspectives Discussion Series

 

A Gift of Hope: Helping the Homeless by Danielle Steel

Resources for Further Exploration

 

Organizations and Online Resources

• City Mission of Findlay findlaymission.org
• Hope House findlayhopehouse.org
• Ohio links from the US Department of Housing and Urban Development hud.gov/states/ohio/homeless  
• Safe Place (national outreach and prevention) bit.ly/3yeBBM3
• US Interagency Council on Homelessness statistics bit.ly/3l6fhk8

 

Books (asterisk * indicates book is also available as book on CD)

• This is All I Got: A New Mother’s Search for Home by Lauren Sandler bit.ly/3766MNI
• Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond bit.ly/3yaUOhI
• Breakfast At Sally’s by Richard LeMieux bit.ly/3l5htIp
• *Broke in America: Seeing, Understanding and ending US Poverty by Joanne Samuel Goldblum bit.ly/3i7OuSs
• Troop 6000: How a Group of Homeless Girl Scouts Inspired the World by Nikita Stewart bit.ly/373sKRB

 

Documentaries, Docuseries, and Videos

• Lost in America (2019) bit.ly/3rEkvVm
• Mully: Changing the World One Child at a Time (2017) bit.ly/3ybyGDX
• Broken Families: Lydia’s Story (2018) bit.ly/3l5i112
• Shelter Song: Art From the Homeless (2018) bit.ly/378jQC5
• Above and Below (2016) bit.ly/3l2sWso

 

Elementary Level Books

• Dear Librarian by Lydia M. Sigwarth; illustrated by Romina Galotta bit.ly/3x2sH2Z
• The One with the Scraggly Beard by Elizabeth Withey; illustrated by Lynn Scurfield   bit.ly/3ycvjfV
• Still a Family by Brenda Reeves Sturgis; pictures by Jo-Shin Lee bit.ly/3zBe882
• A Place to Stay: A Shelter Story by Erin Gunti; illustrated by Esteli Meza bit.ly/3kZPCcP
• Aunt Pearl by Monica Kulling; illustrated by Irene Luxbacher bit.ly/3l3qilZ

 

Middle Grade Books

• Stay by Bobbie Pyron bit.ly/3eXbRwb
• Almost Home by Joan Bauer bit.ly/2VaBlPz
• The Exact Location of Home by Kate Messner bit.ly/3f0CcJN
• The Great Jeff by Tony Abbott bit.ly/3l4AhHT
• Crenshaw by Katherine Applegate bit.ly/3xaHicL

 

Teen Books

• Paper Things by Jennifer Richard Jacobson bit.ly/3rFV1a9
• No Parking At The End Times by Bryan Bliss bit.ly/3l9cQ02
• Where I Live by Brenda Rufener bit.ly/3x85Ina
• Roam by C. H. Armstrong bit.ly/3ya7WDT
• Killing Time in Crystal City by Chris Lynch bit.ly/3f6ewUi