The porcupine of truth, Bill Konigsberg
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The porcupine of truth, Bill Konigsberg
Language
eng
Index
no index present
Literary Form
fiction
Main title
The porcupine of truth
Oclc number
890912329
Responsibility statement
Bill Konigsberg
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
Target audience
adolescent
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Subject
- Juvenile works
- Montana + Billings
- Children of alcoholics -- Juvenile fiction
- Bildungsromans
- Fiction
- Friendship
- Billings (Mont.) -- Juvenile fiction
- African American teenage girls
- Alcoholism -- Fiction
- Friendship -- Juvenile fiction
- African American teenage girls -- Juvenile fiction
- Dysfunctional families -- Juvenile fiction
- Friendship -- Fiction
- Family problems -- Fiction
- African Americans -- Fiction
- Children of alcoholics
- Billings (Mont.) -- Fiction
- Dysfunctional families
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Outgoing Resources
- Classification1
- Creator1
- Genre3
- Subject18
- Juvenile works
- Montana + Billings
- Children of alcoholics -- Juvenile fiction
- Bildungsromans
- Fiction
- Friendship
- Billings (Mont.) -- Juvenile fiction
- African American teenage girls
- Alcoholism -- Fiction
- Friendship -- Juvenile fiction
- African American teenage girls -- Juvenile fiction
- Dysfunctional families -- Juvenile fiction
- Friendship -- Fiction
- Family problems -- Fiction
- African Americans -- Fiction
- Children of alcoholics
- Billings (Mont.) -- Fiction
- Dysfunctional families
- Author1
- Mapped to1