Hobo Jungle

Description:

During the Depression in 1939, ten-year-old Ellen misses her life before her father lost his job and her family had to move in with her grandfather in Vancouver, but when she meets a friendly homeless man who lives in the dangerous Hobo Jungle near the railroad tracks, her perspective on her own life changes.

subjects: Depressions,  Family problems,  Fiction,  History,  Interpersonal relations,  Juvenile fiction,  Poverty,  Tramps,  Helping behavior,  Poor families,  Unemployment,  Familles pauvres,  Comportement d'aide,  Crises economiques,  Chomage,  Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse,  Vagabonds

Places: British Columbia,  Canada

Times: 1914-1945,  1929,  20th century