Sorta like a rock star : a novel /
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 h...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Little, Brown,
2010.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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| 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 355 pages ; 22 cm. |
| Audience: | 013-017. |
| ISBN: | 9780316043526 0316043524 9780316068505 0316068500 |