Skip, forgotten by the foster care system, is forced to live on the streets with an older homeless man, Billy. When war breaks out and their city comes under attack, however, it isn't long before they end up caring for an abandoned child and a desperate teenage mother as they attempt to survive in a city beset by deadly gangs and lawless soldiers.
year: 2010
call number/section: 1000
subjects: homeless persons, fiction, war, refugees, self-reliance, infants, australia, fiction