Invisible child : poverty, survival & hope in an American city /

"Invisible Child follows eight dramatic years in the life of Dasani Coates, a child with an imagination as soaring as the skyscrapers near her Brooklyn homeless shelter. Born at the turn of a new century, Dasani is named for the bottled water that comes to symbolize Brooklyn's gentrificati...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Elliott, Andrea (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Random House, an imprint and division of Penguin Random House LLC, [2021]
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Coates, Dasani, > 2001- Homeless children > New York (State) > New York > Biography. African American homeless children > New York (State) > New York > Biography. Ill-Housed Persons. Homeless Youth. Housing Instability. Child Poverty. Child. Adolescent. Black or African American. Enfants sans-abri > New York (État) > New York > Biographies. Enfants sans-abri noirs américains > New York (État) > New York > Biographies. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General. African American homeless children. Homeless children. New York.. New York City. New York (State) > New York. Homeless persons > Biography. Biography Biographies.

Table of Contents:

"A house is not a home" : 2012-2013
The Sykes family : 1835-2003
Root shock : 2003-2013
"That fire gonna burn!" : 2013-2015
Dasani's departure : 2015
"To endure any how" : 2015-2016
Dasani's way : 2016-2021.