TY - BOOK AU - Quick,Matthew TI - Sorta like a rock star SN - 9780316043533 PY - 2010/// CY - New York PB - Little, Brown and Company KW - Homeless person KW - Fiction KW - Optimism KW - Depression, Mental KW - High schools KW - Schools KW - Autism KW - Dogs N1 - Accelerated Reader; 5.4; 10.0 N2 - 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 ER -