Audience: Young Adult
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Worldcat 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.Bookskoetter Rating:=2/5
Bookskoetter Review:
I won't lie: The way this book was written drove me completely insane! I almost stopped reading it after the first three or four chapters! It is written in first person from a the perspective of a teenage girl that definitely talks like a teen and frequently ends sentences with phrases such as, "Word," and "True? True." I found the language to be completely obnoxious, but I don't know if teen readers would be quite as annoyed. As for the storyline, it took awhile to take off, but actually ended up being okay. I was determined to give this book a one rating at first, but try as I might, I couldn't help myself from liking and rooting for the protagonist, who was a raving optimist who found herself facing a hopeless situation. I would recommend this to teens craving a story with a spunky and optimist twist on real-life issues.
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