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The porcupine of truth / Bill Konigsberg.

Konigsberg, Bill, (author.).

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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780545648936
  • ISBN: 0545648939
  • ISBN: 9780545648943
  • ISBN: 9780545754927
  • Physical Description: 325 pages ; 22 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York, NY : Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc., 2015.

Content descriptions

Target Audience Note:
HL670L Lexile
Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader AR UG 4.4 12 174471.
Subject: Dysfunctional families > Fiction.
Children of alcoholics > Fiction.
African American teenage girls > Fiction.
Friendship > Fiction.
Young adult fiction.
Family problems > Fiction.
Alcoholism > Fiction.
African Americans > Fiction.
Friendships.
Billings (Mont.) > Fiction.
Genre: Young adult fiction.

Available copies

  • 18 of 19 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at McDowell County Public Library.

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