Shakedown Street (Hardcover)

de Jonathan Nasaw (Author)

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Hardcover
Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group (April 1993)
ISBN-10: 0385309511
ISBN-13: 978-0385309516

Average Customer Review: 4.0�toiles sur 5 Voir tous les commentaires (1 �valuation de client)

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From Publishers Weekly

PW commented that this portrait of a homeless teenage girl "remains inexplicably perky and glib" and "tends to trivialize very serious issues." Ages 12-up.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Gr. 7-12. Caro's mother is a caring parent who is a sucker for offbeat religious groups that tend to leave her poorer and not much wiser. Now that the latest guru has run off with the community assets, Caro and Momma have no place to live. As street people, they find life a daily struggle to stay warm and dry, get something to eat, avoid predators and authority figures. With humor, insight, and compassion, but without sentiment, 14-year-old Caro, the narrator, describes the other street people they come to know. Among them are alcoholics, drug addicts, thieves, lunatics, and those who have just run out of luck. They are flawed human beings just like those who live in houses, only more vulnerable. When a friend finds an abandoned house in Berkeley, Caro accepts with gratitude the shelter and the company of the other street people who move in. She attends school and makes friends, but then the squatters are forced out with tear gas, and Caro almost becomes a prostitute just to live. This book offers a fascinating look at the culture of the homeless, an engrossing and believable story line, and a memorable heroine. Sheilamae O'Hara --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

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4.0�toiles sur 5 Shakedown Street, Mai 11 2000

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This review is from: SHAKEDOWN STREET (Mass Market Paperback)

Shakedown Street is the perfect book for growing teenagers. Caro, the main character, is a young girl who lives with her traveling, religious mother. Caro and her friends deal with a lot of natural, emotional, and physical problems. Caro deals with troublesome situations such as drugs, puberty, sex, and the "hard knock life". Caro and her mother move from home to home. They make many friends who are homeless, sick, or perhaps melancholoy, such as themselves and live with them for a period time. Definetley a good book for the growing teen. I strongly reccomend this book to youths between the ages of thirteen and seventeen.

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