Ivy, Tale of a Homeless Girl in San Francisco, youth novel
Ivy had discovered that almost everyone looked friendly from a distance, but when she got up close to a person, she had to be able to read them like a book. There were crazy people as kind as lambs and sane people as mean as rabid dogs. From a distance it might not be possible to tell the difference, but if you were homeless and lived on the streeets, you had to know.
