Senior Dan Halprin is the star pitcher on the baseball team; he has been offered a scholarship to Rice University, and is dating the prettiest and wealthiest girl in school. When his parents lose their jobsand they go from middle class to homeless, Dan and his parents are forced to move into Dignityville, a tent community in the center of their town. Dan struggles to maintain his self-confidence and relationships. This compelling social commentary challenges stereotypes about homeless people and offers a look at homelessness from the perspective of a middle-class teen. Diverse characters, easy dialogue, realistic school and community settings, believable tension, and references to John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath are all included in this well-paced, engaging narrative.