Can't Get There from Here

About this book

Her street name is Maybe She lives with a tribe of homeless teens -- runaways 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 doesnt believe her stepfather abuses her. As the other kids start to disappear -- victims of violence addiction and exposure -- Maybe tries to help Tears get off the streets...if its not already too late. 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 streets and of a society that has forgotten how to care.