Sorta Like a Rockstar
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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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good teen novel submitted by manz on August 29, 2013, 11:59am The main character can be kind of annoying, but I liked the book. It's entertaining and it's nice to read a book about a girl with a do-good heart who enjoys helping others amidst her own confusing life.
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New York : Little, Brown, 2010.
Year Published: 2010
Description: 355 p. ; 22 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
READING LEVEL
Lexile: 1030
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780316043526
0316043524
9780316068505
0316068500
SUBJECTS
Homeless persons -- Fiction.
Optimism -- Fiction.
Depression, Mental -- Fiction.
High schools -- Fiction.
Autism -- Fiction.
Dogs -- Fiction.
Hope -- Fiction.
Teaching -- Fiction.
Korean immigrants -- Fiction.
Nursing homes -- Fiction.
Hope in teenage girls -- Fiction.