Come the Morning

by Mark Jonathan Harris

Book Overview

Published in 1989 to wide acclaim, Come the Morning was one of the first novels for older children to treat the problem of homelessness realistically. Fifteen years later, with unemployment and poverty on the rise again and homeless families haunting the streets of all our major cities, the book remains as sobering and timely as it was in the late 1980s.

Come the Morning tells the story of the Gibsons, a working-class family from El Paso,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814332412
• ISBN13: 9780814332412
• Release Date: March 2005
• Publisher: Wayne State University Press
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 13 to 18 years
• Grade Range: Grade 8 to Postsecondary