"Without a Place to Call Home,"

Stickney profiles Grand Junction’s homeless children – a group rarely in public view – without stigmatizing them. Though the topic is familiar, this article goes beyond statistics with compelling details: the 11-year-old girl doing homework in her mother’s car; a teenage boy sharing a cramped motel room with his mother, two sisters and a kitten; and a family’s steady diet of hot dogs and ramen noodles in a motel kitchen that lacks a stove or refrigerator.