Marlee Phillips thinks her life couldn't be worse. After all, she has the meanest fifth-grade teacher of all time. But then her parents have a terrible argument, her dad walks out, and her mom tells her that they're getting a divorce. Certainly the w...
Published in 1989 to wide acclaim, Come the Morning was one of the first novels for older children to treat the problem of homelessness realistically. Fifteen years later, with unemployment and poverty on the rise again and homeless families haunt...