Homeless teens on the street: stealing, begging, cutting... starving, freezing... crying... dying.
When you’re an angry kid, the streets might seem like a solution, but for Maybe and her shrinking group of so-called friends, the streets hurt. And there’s a certain amount of time to be out there, a time during which you still have the chance to go back home.
Home: a place where you have to face your fears, but a place where you can still live a life.
But after that time goes by, and you’re on the streets for too long, you never get home again.
In Todd Strasser’s novel Can’t Get There from Here, Maybe tries to help a new runaway called Tears to get back home before it’s too late.
Published by Simon Pulse in 2004, this book tells the gritty story, appropriate for readers 13 and up, of kids who struggle to survive in New York City, who are beaten by strangers in the street, who find their friends’ bodies dead and frozen to the concrete ground in stinking alleyways, and who share brief moments of tenderness in order to make it through to the next morning.
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