Children's Book Press - A Shelter in Our Car

My Very Own Room / Mi propio cuartito. Story by Amada Irma Pérez and illustrations by Maya Christina Gonzalez.

Books from other publishers:
Bunting, Eve. December. Harcourt Brace, 1997.

Bunting, Eve. Fly Away Home. Clarion Books, 1993.

Chalofsky, Margie et al. Changing Places: A Kid's View of Shelter Living. Gryphon House, Inc., 1992.

Chinn, Karen. Sam and the Lucky Money. Lee & Low Books, 1995.

Cumpiano, Ina. Y Tu, Donde Vives? Hampton-Brown Books, 1992.

Da Costa Nuñez, Ralph. Our Wish. Homes for the Homeless, 1997.

Fox, Paula. Monkey Island. Orchard Books, 1991.

Forst, Jonathon. Gowanus Dog. Frances Foster Books, 1999.

Groth, B.L. Home Is Where We Live: Life at a Shelter Through a Young Girl's Eyes. Cornerstone Press, 1995.

Hamilton, Virginia. The Planet of Junior Brown. MacMillan, 1986.

Hubbard, Jim. Shooting Back: A Photographic View of Life by Homeless Children. Chronicle Books, 1991.

McGovern, Ann. The Lady in the Box. Turtle Books, 1997.

Rosen, Michael J. Home. HarperTrophy, 1996.

Testa, Maria. Someplace to Go. Albert Whitman and Company, 1996.

Websites:

	http://www.endhomelessness.org: National Alliance to End Homelessness has many resources online, including statistics, lesson plans, and reference lists.
	http://www.nationalhomeless.org: National Coalition for the Homeless has useful factsheets and information on homeless policy.
	http://www.hud.gov/kids/hthsplsh.html Department of Housing and Urban Development includes facts and information aimed at children.
	http://www.drawbridge.org Drawbridge is a San Francisco Bay Area organization that teaches art to homeless children. The website features art by homeless children.

Miguel De Loza is a fifth grade bilingual Language Arts and Social Studies teacher at Garfield Charter School in Menlo Park, CA. Building on the strengths of students' cultures, backgrounds, abilities, and experiences, Garfield Charter School cultivates the values of respect, responsibility, and community involvement. The school's mission is to continue to provide a replicable, sustainable, equitable model for quality education in Spanish and English.

Alexandra Freidus, former Director of Community Partnerships at Children's Book Press, teaches integrated Language Arts and Social Studies to secondary students at Berkeley High School. Alexandra was a consultant for this Teacher's Guide.

Loretta Torres is a second grade bilingual two-way (Spanish Immersion and Spanish as a Second Language) teacher at Fairmount Elementary School in San Francisco, CA. Fairmount views all members of the community as teachers and learners, offering many programs supporting learning for families as well as students.

Christina Velasco is a fourth and fifth grade teacher at Fairmount Elementary School's Spanish immersion program. She is a Bay Area Writing Project teacher consultant and is teaching a writing course for educators at UC Berkeley this summer.

Please share your own ideas for how to use A Shelter in Our Car in the classroom. We'll be pleased to post your work on the website for other teachers to use. Email us your lesson plans at educators@childrensbookpress.org.