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Author:

Konigsberg, Bill, author.

Title:

The porcupine of truth / Bill Konigsberg.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Arthur A. Levine Booksan imprint of Scholastic Inc.,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

325 pages ; 22 cm.

Subject:

Dysfunctional families--Juvenile fiction.
Children of alcoholics--Juvenile fiction.
African American teenage girls--Juvenile fiction.
Friendship--Juvenile fiction.
Billings (Mont.)--Juvenile fiction.
Dysfunctional families--Fiction.
Alcoholism--Fiction.
African Americans--Fiction.
Friendship--Fiction.
Billings (Mont.)--Fiction.
Bildungsromans.

Summary:

Seventeen-year-old Carson Speier is bored of Billings, Montana, and resentful that he has to help his mother take care of his father, a dying alcoholic whom he has not seen in fourteen years--but then he meets Aisha, a beautiful African American girl who has run away from her own difficult family, and together they embark on a journey of discovery that may help them both come to terms with their lives.

ISBN:

0545648939
9780545648936

LCCN:

2014027136

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