Sorta Like a Rock Star

by Matthew Quick

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.

• ISBN10: 0606264825
• ISBN13: 9780606264822
• Publish Date: 3 May 2011 (first published 13 April 2010)
• Publish Status: Out of Print
• Out of Print: 6 April 2021
• Imprint: Turtleback Books
• Edition: Bound for Schools & Libraries ed.
• Format: Hardcover (Library Binding)
• Pages: 355
• Language: English

Reviews

[Sam@WLABB]

Amber was a really special character. She kind of had the deck stacked against her - abandoned by her father, alcoholic mother, homeless, but she still always found a way to look on the positive side and spread cheer. When things got REALLY bad, all these people were there to repay the kindness Amber had shown them, and there was definitely a little cheering coming from me, when that all went down.

Overall: A charming and heartwarming read.

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[Bianca]

You may exist in
This world—but I exist too
And I will not yield