Can't Get There from Here

Rating:
Summary: A very exciting and realistic story
Review: Todd Strasser's book "Can't Get There From Here" talks about the situation homeless kids in the big city New York. There are different reasons why these kids run away from home. Often they don't have the feeling that they have a real home. Sometimes they had to have survival sex, their parents didn't want them, their parents couldn't afford them or they felt alone in a rich family.
In this book a few of these forgotten kids find together in a kind of family called "The Asphalt Tribe". They have to fight with hunger, cold and dirt. Will they win this fight with illnessis and with the feeling that nobody cares about them? You can read all this in Todd Strasser's exciting story.
Strasser wrote a very interesting book. It's very realistic, you often see homeless people in big towns. I think it's a very big problem of our rich society that we let kids live on the street where they can't survive. Strasser tries to explain the reasons for leaving home and why the kids often don't want to get help. They had a too bad life when they were young, so that they want to live on their own. This book makes you think about this bad situation of so young people in our rich American and European societies.

Rating:
Summary: A very exciting and realistic story
Review: Todd Strasser?s book "Can't Get There From Here" talks about the situation homeless kids in the big city New York. There are different reasons why these kids run away from home. Often they don't have the feeling that they have a real home. Sometimes they had to have survival sex, their parents didn't want them, their parents couldn't afford them or they felt alone in a rich family.
In this book a few of these forgotten kids find together in a kind of family called "The Asphalt Tribe". They have to fight with hunger, cold and dirt. Will they win this fight with illnessis and with the feeling that nobody cares about them? You can read all this in Todd Strasser's exciting story.
Strasser wrote a very interesting book. It's very realistic, you often see homeless people in big towns. I think it's a very big problem of our rich society that we let kids live on the street where they can't survive. Strasser tries to explain the reasons for leaving home and why the kids often don't want to get help. They had a too bad life when they were young, so that they want to live on their own. This book makes you think about this bad situation of so young people in our rich American and European societies.