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Book:  Fly Away Home by Eve Bunting

This is a story about a boy and his father who live at an airport.       Preview the book with your students. Discuss what they think the book is going to be about by looking at the cover and some of the pictures. Use this background information when discussing the book.

About 1.35 million children in the United States -- nearly 2 percent of the nation's total -- are likely to become homeless at some point in the course of a year, a new analysis of national census and survey data being presented today has found. (Bernstein, Nina. "Study Documents Homelessness In American Children Each Year," The New York Times, February 1, 2000).
The health of homeless children in New York is a growing concern (Herbert, Bob. "In America; Children in Crisis," The New York Times, June 10, 1999. 
 

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