There’s just one problem - Gage didn’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. Sue Crean, Library Media Specialist/21st Century Skills Teacher, Connecticut USA Maybe you’ll even look at the homeless a little differently. You’ll see how important a little kindness can be to people. This isn’t a depressing story, but one that celebrates family, determination, and optimism.
You’ll root for Ari and Gage as they try to get back on their feet. This book will turn your ideas about the homeless upside down. Even with all her troubles, Ari works to contribute to her school by trying to persuade her strict new principal that the students need fun events too, like crazy hat day and a sleepover in the library for 5th graders. Her friendships and dreams are in jeopardy. For Ari, they give her a sense of family and security.Īfraid to tell anyone because she doesn’t want Gage to get in trouble, she struggles to keep up with homework, attend her after school volunteer work, and make sure her clothes and hair are clean, all the while spending nights on various couches and in homeless shelters. The Paper Things are a collection of paper dolls she made into her pretend family from magazines and catalogs. She has a best friend, Sasha, who shares the same dream, and a collection of “Paper Things” as she calls them. They are homeless.Īri is an honors student hoping to carry on the family tradition by attending Carter Middle School for the gifted. When they leave, she finds out that Gage doesn’t have an apartment for them after all. Ari feels disloyal to Janna, but wants to keep the promise they made to their dying mother to stay together. Determined to keep his family together, Gage persuades Ari to leave with him and live together in an apartment. Things start to unravel when Gage can no longer put up with Janna, who is very critical of him. Her mother and father are both dead, and she and her 19 year old brother Gage have lived with their mother’s old friend, Janna, for four years. However, in Paper Things by Jennifer Richard Jacobsen, Arianna (Ari) Hazard finds herself just that. When most people think about the homeless they don’t usually picture 11 year old honor students.
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