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Author:

Quick, Matthew, 1973-

Title:

Sorta like a rockstar : a novel / by Matthew Quick.

Edition:

1st pbk. ed.

Publisher:

LittleBrown,

Copyright Date:

2011

Description:

355 p. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

Homeless persons--Juvenile fiction.
Optimism--Juvenile fiction.
Depression, Mental--Juvenile fiction.
High schools--Juvenile fiction.
Schools--Juvenile fiction.
Autism--Juvenile fiction.
Dogs--Juvenile fiction.
Homeless persons--Fiction.
Optimism--Fiction.
Depression, Mental--Fiction.
High schools--Fiction.
Schools--Fiction.
Autism--Fiction.
Dogs--Fiction.
Homeless persons--Fiction.
Optimism--Fiction.
Depression (Psychology)--Fiction.
High schools--Fiction.
Autism--Fiction.
Dogs--Fiction.

Notes:

Includes a Reading Group guide and an excerpt from Boy 21.

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.

ISBN:

0316043532 (trade pbk.)
9780316043533 (trade pbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)720015901

Locations:

YUPD232 -- DeWitt Community Library (De Witt)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)