Title: Hobo Jungle
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.
Subjects: Depressions, Family problems, Fiction, History, Interpersonal relations, Juvenile fiction, Poverty, Tramps, Helping behavior, Poor families, Unemployment, Familles pauvres, Comportement d'aide, Crises economiques, Chomage, Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse, Vagabonds
Places: British Columbia, Canada
Time periods: 1914-1945, 1929, 20th century