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Author:

Quick, Matthew, 1973-

Title:

Sorta like a rock star : a novel / by Matthew Quick.

Edition:

1st pbk. ed.

Publisher:

LittleBrown,

Copyright Date:

2011, c2010

Description:

355 p. ; 21 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.
School stories.
Autism--Fiction.
Dogs--Fiction.

Summary:

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.

Indexed by:

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

ISBN:

0316043532
9780316043533 (pbk.)

Locations:

YSPD232 -- Camanche Public Library (Camanche)

0YSX353 -- Hampton-Dumont High School (Hampton)

RSPC135 -- Lake City Public Library (Lake City)

WVPB305 -- Lake Park Public Library (Lake Park)

NVPB663 -- Riceville Public Library (Riceville)

TXPC862 -- Traer Public Library (Traer)