Amber Appleton, living in a school bus with her mom, refuses to give in to despair and continues visiting the elderly at a nursing home, teaching English to Korean women, and caring for a Vietnam veteran and his dog, but a fatal tragedy may prove to be one burden too many for the seventeen-year-old girl.
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Wilson's Senior High School, February 2011 School Library Journal starred, May 2010 Publisher's Weekly, May 2010 Horn Book, October 2010 Bulletin (Center for Children's books), September 2010
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