Description: This novel for young readers, told by a thirteen-year-old boy, is the story of a working-class American family plunged into homelessness.
Review Quotes:
Originally published in 1989, this edition has been updated with an Author's Commentary. Regardless of the updates, the text might be even timelier today than when first published. Since then, the population of homeless families has swelled, and as Harris notes in his Afterword, 'Today the fastest-growing segment of the homeless is children.'
-- "Journal of Children and Poverty"