A first-person narrative and full-color photographs tell the story of young, hope-filled Mikey and his family and their stay in an emergency shelter and at New York City's Henry Street Settlement Urban Family Center. By the author-photographer of Beneath the Stone.
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Photojournalist Wolf (Beneath the Stone) follows a homeless family of six as they navigate New York City's social services programs in this obviously well-meaning but flawed book. The narrator, eight-year-old Mikey, describes an eventful nine-month period during which his family moves into temporary public housing. Wolf's camera follows the family everywhere-as they line up to receive food stamps and then go shopping for groceries, into meetings with social workers, to the dinner table and the playground. But although Mikey describes his fears of ending up "living on the city streets," the basic issues are sidestepped. What does it mean for Mikey's family to be "homeless" when they occupy an apartment? Why do some families receive public assistance? Poverty is presented here more as an alternative lifestyle than as a social problem (when Mikey has to go to the emergency room, he reports that "Mom has Medicaid, so we don't have to pay for doctors and stuff"). This blurry account is likelier to confuse readers than to elicit their compassion. Ages 7-up.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From School Library Journal
Grade 1-5?A hopeful story of an eight-year-old boy and his family. After a night in a shelter, Mikey, his mother, stepfather, two sisters, and brother are referred to the Henry Street Settlement Urban Family Center on New York City's Lower East Side, a clean, safe facility with individual apartments for each family. Through Mikey's first-person narrative and Wolf's full-color photographs, readers see the family go about their daily lives over the course of about a year. Mikey adjusts to school, makes friends, enjoys the summer, and ends the year and the book with a Christmas celebration at the Center, the family's first real Christmas in three years. This is a useful book for libraries seeking a more positive look at homeless families and the difference positive assistance can make in their lives. The photographs add a sense of reality to the text, and Mikey's optimistic personality is apparent.?Mary Rinato Berman, New York Public Library
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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