Sorta Like a Rockstar
New York : Little, Brown, 2010.
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: 355 pages ; 22 cm
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.
Subjects:
Homeless persons -- Teen fiction.
Optimism -- Teen fiction.
Depression, Mental -- Teen fiction.
High schools -- Teen Fiction.
Schools -- Teen fiction.
Autism -- Teen fiction.
Dogs -- Teen fiction.
Homeless persons -- Teen fiction.
Optimism -- Teen fiction.
Depression, Mental -- Teen fiction.
High schools -- Teen Fiction.
Schools -- Teen fiction.
Autism -- Teen fiction.
Dogs -- Teen fiction.
Target Audience: 960L
ISBN:
9780316043526 (alk. paper)
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
TF Quick | Main (Downtown) | Garden Level, Teen Fiction | In |