Cover of Hobo Jungle

Book 2002

Hobo Jungle

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Publisher
Penguin
Language
English
Published
2002
  • Tramps -- Fiction.
  • Poverty -- Fiction.
  • Family problems -- Fiction.

During the Depression in 1939, ten-year-old Ellen misses her life before her father lost his job and her family had to move in with her grandfather in Vancouver, but when she meets a friendly homeless man who lives in the dangerous Hobo Jungle near the railroad tracks, her perspective on her own life changes.