LeVar encourages us to make a difference in our communities. Viewers meet a boy who volunteers at City Harvest, an organization which gathers prepared food for distribution to the homeless, and the girl who began Common Cents, an organization whose members collect pennies and use them to buy items for homeless shelters.

Review books

Feature Book:

Fly Away Home

This book tells a touching story of a homeless boy and his father who move from terminal to terminal in an airport, trying not to be noticed and discovered. The boy expresses frustration about being homeless, yet he has hope for the future.

Author: Eve Bunting
Illustrator: Ronald Himler
Publisher: Clarion Books

The Homeless Hibernating Bear

When a hibernating bear is mistaken for a bum and put in a Salt Lake City jail, several homeless children find a way to gain the bear's release.

Author: Kids Livin Life
Publisher: David R. Godine Publications Inc.

Uncle Willie and the Soup Kitchen

A boy spends the day with Uncle Willie in the soup kitchen where he works with others preparing and serving food for the hungry. And in the process, he helps to make a difference in his neighbors' lives.

Author: DyAnne DiSalvo-Ryan
Illustrator: DyAnne DiSalvo-Ryan
Publisher: Morrow

Home: A Collaboration of Thirty Distinguished Authors and Illustrators of Children's Books to Aid the Homeless

Thirteen authors and seventeen illustrators celebrate the places and things that make up the home, in support of Share Our Strength's (SOS) fight against homelessness.

Author: Michael J. Rosen
Publisher: Harper Collins