Title: Joseph
Description: Fourteen-year-old Joseph tries to avoid trouble and keep in touch with his father, who is serving in Iraq, as he and his alcoholic, drug-addicted mother move from one homeless shelter to another.
Subjects: African Americans, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Family problems, Fiction, Homeless persons, Mothers, Juvenile fiction, Family life, Children's fiction, Family life, fiction, Mothers, fiction, Homeless persons, fiction, Alcoholism, fiction, Drug abuse, fiction, African americans, fiction
Places: homeless shelter
People: Joseph Flood, Momma, Daddy, Aunt Shirley, Uncle Todd, Jasmine