"The Boy Who Steals Houses" is like a tender hug and an unexpected punch to the face. Sam is only fifteen, but he has to figure out where to get food, where to spend the night, and how to protect his older autistic brother. Sam breaks into abandoned houses, lives there as long as he can, and turns whatever he finds into small change that he shares with his brother. One day, the owners, a family with seven children, return early. To Sam's surprise, instead of calling the police, they invite him to dinner. Everyone thinks he is a friend of one of the other siblings. And he falls in love with the same-age Moxie. But Sam has a dark secret. And his past is already lurking, ready to catch up with him... A gripping novel about two brothers longing for a home.