Format:
Book
Author:
Quick, Matthew, 1973-
Title:
Sorta like a rockstar : a novel / by Matthew Quick.
Edition:
1st pbk. ed.
Publisher, Date:
New York : Little, Brown, 2011, c2010.
Description:
355 p. ; 22 cm.
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.
Subjects:
Homeless persons -- Juvenile fiction.
Optimism -- Juvenile fiction.
Depression, Mental -- Juvenile fiction.
High schools -- Juvenile fiction.
Schools -- Juvenile fiction.
Autism -- Juvenile fiction.
Dogs -- Juvenile fiction.
Notes:
Includes a Reading Group guide and an excerpt from Boy 21.
ISBN:
9780316043533 (pbk.)
0316043532 (pbk.)
Other Number:
720015901
System Availability:
8
Current Holds:
0
Control Number:
695010
Call Number:
[Fic]
Course Reserves:
0
# System items in:
8