Author: Matthew Quick
Publisher: London: Headline, 2013
Annotation:
Having good faith and hope is what everyone would like to have and achieve in their life. For Amber Appleton, a seventeen-year-old girl with autism, she proclaims as “an inspiration, a rockstar - of hope”. She is homeless and lives in a school bus with her alcoholic and unfit mother - difficult circumstances and hardship. She has a best friend who is a loyal rescue dog name Bobby Big Boy - 100% cute. Amber’s optimism is described throughout the story; regularly teaches English to Korean Catholic women through music, visits elderly at nursing home and befriends a solitary Vietnam veteran. When a tragedy hits, Amber falls into depression where is unable to cope, feels blank and things are harder than thought possible.
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