Chapter I: In Search of the Stories of Homeless Schoolchildren, Chapter II: Homeless Families and Students in the Literature, Chapter III: An Ecological Approach to Research, Chapter IV: Six Families, Beginnings and Endings, Chapter V: Kara Mellon, A Case Study, Chapter VI: Jeffrey Ricks, A Case Study Chapter VII: Understanding How School and Family Contexts Constrain Student ,Chapter VIII: Modest Suggestions in the Face of Extensive Need Chapter IX: Witness to a Cataclysm.