The story and the characters are fully fleshed out so that you feel you know them and are living in the same town. Jacobson takes the reader into the psyche of this family, not just Lowen, along with other well-drawn characters. Lowen is hoping that the change may help him leave his guilt behind. His family is chosen and they move to Millville, a small town where everyone knows everyone else.
He learns of the Dollar House program where a family can buy a house for a dollar if they meet the one-year fix-up requirements.
And Abe is killed along with three other kids by a teen shooter. Lowen holds himself directly responsible. One day he sends his pesky, younger friend Able out to buy candy just to get him to stop bothering him while he is working. He lives with his parents, his older brother Clem and older sister Anneth in an apartment. What did you like about the book? Twelve-year-old Lowen is a very talented cartoonist. Rating: 1-5 (5 is an excellent or a Starred review) 4.5 Will Ari be forced to break one of her promises to Mama? Told in an open, authentic voice, this nuanced story of hiding in plain sight may have readers thinking about homelessness in a whole new way.The Dollar Kids – Jennifer Richard Jacobson, illustrated by Ryan Andrews, Candlewick, (9780763694746), 2018 But all of this jumping around makes it hard for Ari to keep up with her schoolwork, never mind her friendships, and getting into Carter starts to seem impossible. He and Ari have been “couch surfing,” staying with Gage’s friend in a tiny apartment, crashing with Gage’s girlfriend and two roommates, and if necessary, sneaking into a juvenile shelter to escape the cold Maine nights. So when nineteen-year-old Gage decides he can no longer live with their bossy guardian, Janna, Ari knows she has to go with him. But it’s been two months, and Gage still hasn’t found them an apartment. When Ari’s mother died four years ago, she had two final wishes: that Ari and her older brother, Gage, would stay together always, and that Ari would go to Carter, the middle school for gifted students. There’s just one problem-Gage doesn’t actually have a place to live. When forced to choose between staying with her guardian and being with her big brother, Ari chose her big brother.
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