- Published: New York : Little, Brown, 2010.
- Year Published: 2010
- Edition: 1st ed.
- 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.
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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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