No Place Like Home

A middle-grade novel by James Bird about homelessness and hope.

When home is a car, life is unpredictable. School, friends, and three meals a day aren''t guaranteed. Not every town has a shelter where a family can sleep for a night or two, and places with parking lots don''t welcome overnight stays.

Opin, his brother Emjay, and their mother are trying to get to Los Angeles, where they hope an uncle ...