Can't Get There from Here

Todd Strasser, author of the powerful and disturbing Give a Boy a Gun, again focuses on an important social issue as he tells a thought-provoking, heart-wrenching story of young lives lost to the streetsand of a society that has forgotten how to care.Her street name is Maybe. She lives with a tribe of homeless teensrunaways and throwaways, kids who have no place to go other than the cold city streets, and no family except for one another. Abused, abandoned, and forgotten, they struggle against the cold, hunger, and constant danger. With the frigid winds of January comes a new girl: Tears, a twelve-year-old whose mother doesn't believe her stepfather abuses her. As the other kids start to disappearvictims of violence, addiction, and exposureMaybe tries to help Tears get off the streetsif it's not already too late.