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The porcupine of truth / Bill Konigsberg.
Van Pelt Library PZ7.K83518 Po 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Konigsberg, Bill, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dysfunctional families--Juvenile fiction.
- Dysfunctional families.
- Children of alcoholics--Juvenile fiction.
- Children of alcoholics.
- African American teenage girls--Juvenile fiction.
- African American teenage girls.
- Friendship--Juvenile fiction.
- Friendship.
- Billings (Mont.)--Juvenile fiction.
- Billings (Mont.).
- Family problems--Fiction.
- Alcoholism--Fiction.
- African Americans--Fiction.
- Friendship--Fiction.
- Billings (Mont.)--Fiction.
- Bildungsromans.
- Young adult fiction.
- Montana--Billings.
- Genre:
- Bildungsromans.
- Young adult fiction.
- Fiction.
- Juvenile works.
- Physical Description:
- 325 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc., 2015.
- Summary:
- Seventeen-year-old Carson Speier is bored of Billings, Montana, and resentful that he has to help his mother take care of his father, a dying alcoholic whom he has not seen in fourteen years--but then he meets Aisha, a beautiful African American girl who has run away from her own difficult family, and together they embark on a journey of discovery that may help them both come to terms with their lives.
- Notes:
- Stonewall Book Award for Young Adult Literature, 2016
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780545648936
- 0545648939
- 9780545648943
- 0545648947
- 9780545754927
- 0545754925
- OCLC:
- 890912329
- Publisher Number:
- 99990762172
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