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.
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From Booklist
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
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