Sorta like a rockstar

By Matthew Quick

Subjects: Homeless persons, fiction, Immigrants, Dogs, fiction, Depression, Mental, Nursing homes, Teenage girls, Teaching, High schools, Mental Depression, Depression, mental, fiction, Optimism, Girls, Schools, fiction, Dogs, Autism, fiction, Autism, Homeless persons, Fiction, Children's fiction, Juvenile fiction, Hope, Schools

Description: 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.