Hobo Jungle
By: Dorothy Joan Harris ; [map illustration, Sharon Matthews ; interior illustrations, Ron Lightburn].
Contributors: Lightburn, Ron, ill.
Series: Our Canadian girl.
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 72
Subjects: Depressions -- 1929 -- Canada -- Juvenile fiction.; Depressions -- 1929 -- Canada -- Fiction.; Tramps -- Fiction.; Poverty -- Fiction.; Family problems -- Fiction.; Interpersonal relations -- Fiction.; British Columbia -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.; Canada -- History -- 1914-1945 -- Fiction.
Genres: Juvenile fiction.; Fiction.
Description: 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.
Notes: "Ages 8-12"--Cover p. [4].