Sorta like a rockstar.
Sorta like a rockstar.
Alternate Title
:
Sort of like a rockstar
Sorta like a rock star
By
:
Quick, Matthew, 1973-
Publication Date
:
2010
Subject Term
:
Homeless persons -- Fiction.
Optimism -- Fiction.
Depression, Mental -- Fiction.
High schools -- Fiction.
Schools -- Fiction.
Autism -- Fiction.
Dogs -- Fiction.
Young adult fiction.
Summary
:
Although seventeen-year-old Amber Appleton is homeless, living in a school bus with her unfit mother, she is a relentless optimist who visits the elderly at a nursing home, teaches English to Korean Catholic women with the use of rhythm and blues music, and befriends a solitary Vietnam veteran and his dog, but eventually she experiences one burden more than she can bear and slips into a deep depression.
Language
:
English
ISBN
:
9780316043526
Library | Collection | Collection | Call Number | Status |
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Whitbourne (AWB) | YA Fic | YA Fiction | FIC QUI | Please Request |