What is it like to be a child living in a homeless shelter? Based on conversations with children at a Chicago shelter, Home Is Where We Live "humanizes and individualizes, an aspect of life about which children have many fears and about which there is little appropriate information available", states School Library Journal. Following a 10-year-old girl's seven-month stay at a shelter, through the initial fears to the excitement of moving to a new apartment, the shelter is not idealized, but is seen as a place of stability and recovery in the midst of uncertainty.
-- A valuable resource for educators and human service professionals who work with transient clients
