No Place by Todd Strasser, 262 pages
Dan’s a star pitcher for his school’s baseball team. He’s got a couple of good friends and a
girlfriend. Dan seems like he’s got it
all together, but his parents have both lost their jobs and now they’re about
to lose their house. The plan is to move
in with his uncle’s family but when that doesn’t work out so well, Dan’s family
moves to the tent city in the park, Dignityville. Although it is being sanctioned by the town
to help the growing population of homeless people, Dan is embarrassed to be
there and several people in town don’t like the tents there either. Until this happened, Dan never thought much
about homeless people, but now that he is homeless, he has started thinking
about the problem and possible solutions.
This is a good book for teens who like stories about “issues”.
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