Diversity Books: Housing Insecurity
Tell us about books that you’ve read, that depict people experiencing housing insecurity (no home, changing homes often, living in shelters, etc) in a positive light, describe them accurately, tells us how amazing they are, etc!
Let us know the genre and age group. Tell us a little about the book, why you recommend it as a great depiction of one of our beautiful, diverse groups in our world, and share a pic if you can!
Let’s celebrate our wonderful differences in all of us, and share some amazing books as well! <3
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I’m adding a taglist to start, but this post is open to absolutely everyone! <3
Editing to add:
Please include books written by people of this diversity group as well! <3
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Paper Things
Imagine being a KID and being homeless. Never having a stable place to live, trying to hide it from your friends and classmates, and generally just trying to survive. If you want to see housing insecurity from an ENTIRELY different perspective, read this! It's one of my favorite books <3
From Goodreads:
When forced to choose between staying with her guardian and being with her big brother, Ari chose her big brother. There’s just one problem—Gage doesn’t actually have a place to live.
When Ari’s mother died four years ago, she had two final wishes: that Ari and her older brother, Gage, would stay together always, and that Ari would go to Carter, the middle school for gifted students. So when nineteen-year-old Gage decides he can no longer live with their bossy guardian, Janna, Ari knows she has to go with him. But it’s been two months, and Gage still hasn’t found them an apartment. He and Ari have been "couch surfing," staying with Gage’s friend in a tiny apartment, crashing with Gage’s girlfriend and two roommates, and if necessary, sneaking into a juvenile shelter to escape the cold Maine nights. But all of this jumping around makes it hard for Ari to keep up with her schoolwork, never mind her friendships, and getting into Carter starts to seem impossible. Will Ari be forced to break one of her promises to Mama?
Told in an open, authentic voice, this nuanced story of hiding in plain sight may have readers thinking about homelessness in a whole new way.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22747802-paper-things
