The porcupine of truth / Bill Konigsberg.

Title:

ISBN:

9780545648936

Personal Author:

Konigsberg, Bill

Edition:

First edition.

Publication Information:

New York, NY : Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc., 2015.

Physical Description:

325 pages ; 22 cm

Awards Note:

Winner of the Stonewall Book Award (Children's & young adult's / 2016)

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.

Program Information:

Accelerated Reader UG 4.4 12 174471

Geographic Term:

Billings (Mont.) -- Fiction

Subject Term:

Dysfunctional families -- Fiction

Children of alcoholics -- Fiction

African American teenage girls -- Fiction

Alcoholism -- Fiction.

African Americans -- Fiction

Friendship -- Fiction

Black teenage girls -- Fiction