Tomorrow, Maybe

This book is about a young girl nicknamed Chan who ran away from home due because of her step-mother. It shows the kinds of things that she has to do to survive and the various dangers on the streets, including drugs.

She meets an even younger girl, Elizabeth, who is 11, who ran away due to a physically abusive father. They bond and go from place to place, sleeping in rat-infested basements, going to a party at a rich-boy's house while his parents are away, living in Chinatown for a while, and desperately running from some men who would use both of them as prostitutes.

This is not a pretty novel. It's not a happy-happy novel. It gives a person a good idea of what the homeless people have to do to survive and the types of conditions that they live under. It can be an upsetting story, to say the least, yet it's also well written and interesting.


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