In the past year, I think this is the third book I have read about a young homeless person and it is wonderful to see these books as hopefully, they will make the readers understand the plight of what some kids are going through.
He doesn’t like having to lie to his friends, Winnie and Dylan but he feels he has no option as his mum has made him believe that if he tells anyone then the social services will get involved and they are bad people.
He also explains in great detail the situation he is in and how he feels. The book begins with a scene in a police station and then moved back in time to when the family became homeless.įelix is a very smart kid, he understands the world better than a lot of people and thus explains to the reader his version of lying and when it is or isn’t justified. No Fixed Address is a book that will open young people’s eyes to the plight of the homeless and make them realise that it is not just people sleeping in doorways that are homeless.
He’s going to win and use that money to get the two of them a home. When a TV games show hosts a junior edition with the prize fund for the winner set at $25,000 Felix has an idea. Felix is attending school but he has to go in early each day to have a wash and change in the disabled toilets so that no-one realises that he is homeless. They used to live with his Grandmother but when she died they had to move into an apartment, but then they lost that and moved around into smaller places until they ended up living in the van.Īstrid suffers from depression and so keeping a job is hard for her meaning that they never manage to save up enough money to find a place of their own. Twelve-year-old Felix lives in a van with his mum Astrid in Vancouver, Canada. All he needs is a little luck and a lot of brain power. When his friends Dylan and Winnie ask to visit, Felix always has an excuse.īut Felix has a plan to turn his and Astrid’s lives around.
So when Felix starts at a new school, he does his very best to hide the fact that most of his clothes are in storage, he only showers weekly at the community centre, and that he doesn’t have enough to eat. But Felix and his mom Astrid have a secret: they are living in a van.Īstrid promises it’s only for a while until she finds a new job, and begs Felix not to breathe a word about it. Felix Knutsson is nearly thirteen, lives with his mother and pet gerbil Horatio, and is brilliant at memorising facts and trivia.
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