03837cam a2200457 i 4500 1242026785 OCoLC 20220616144649.0 210326s2021 nyubj b 001 0beng 2021012357 9780812986945 (hardcover) 0812986946 (hardcover) 9780812986969 (ebook) 40030780440 (OCoLC)1242026785 AJM pcc n-us-ny Elliott, Andrea, http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2016015072 author 11471 Invisible child : poverty, survival, and hope in an American city / Andrea Elliott First edition New York : Random House, an imprint and division of Penguin Random House LLC, [2021] xx, 602 pages : maps, genealogical table ; 24 cm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index "A house is not a home": 2012-2013 -- The Sykes family: 1835-2003 -- Root shock: 2003-2013 -- "That fire gonna burn!": 2013-2015 -- Dasani's departure: 2015 -- "To endure any how": 2015-2016 -- Dasani's way: 2016-2021 "Invisible Child follows eight dramatic years in the life of Dasani Coates, a child with an imagination as soaring as the skyscrapers near her Brooklyn homeless shelter. Born at the turn of a new century, Dasani is named for the bottled water that comes to symbolize Brooklyn's gentrification and the shared aspirations of a divided city. As Dasani grows up, moving with her tightknit family from shelter to shelter, her story reaches back to trace the passage of Dasani's ancestors from slavery to the Great Migration north. By the time Dasani comes of age in the twenty-first century, New York City's homeless crisis is exploding amid the growing chasm between rich and poor. In the shadows of this new Gilded Age, Dasani must lead her seven siblings through a thicket of problems: hunger, parental addiction, violence, housing instability, pollution, segregated schools, and the constant monitoring of the child-protection system. When, at age thirteen, Dasani enrolls at a boarding school in Pennsylvania, her loyalties are tested like never before. As she learns to "code-switch" between the culture she left behind and the norms of her new town, Dasani starts to feel like a stranger in both places. Ultimately, she faces an impossible question: What if leaving poverty means abandoning the family you love?"-- Provided by publisher Coates, Dasani, 2001- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2021016491 11472 Homeless children http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh90000443 New York (State) New York http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79007751 Biography. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001237 11473 African American homeless children http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00006747 New York (State) New York http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79007751 Biography. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001237 11474 African American homeless children. fast (OCoLC)fst00799197 11475 Homeless children. fast (OCoLC)fst00959426 11476 New York (State) New York. fast (OCoLC)fst01204333 47 Biographies. fast (OCoLC)fst01919896 5221 Biographies. lcgft http://id.loc.gov/authorities/genreForms/gf2014026049 5221 Online version: Elliott, Andrea. Invisible child. First edition New York : Random House, an imprint and division of Penguin Random House LLC, [2021] 9780812986969 (DLC) 2021012358 .b171810120 ddc BOOK 28328 28328 ddc 0 0 ABELJ ABELJ NF 2022-06-16 32.00 1 362.55 ELLI 63757 2022-08-09 2022-07-27 2022-06-16 BOOK 1