The porcupine of truth, Bill Konigsberg
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Creator
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Subject
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- Juvenile works
- JUVENILE FICTION / Family / Multigenerational
- Montana + Billings
- YOUNG ADULT FICTION / LGBTQ
- Children of alcoholics -- Juvenile fiction
- Lesbian teenagers -- Juvenile fiction
- Fiction
- Friendship
- Billings (Mont.) -- Juvenile fiction
- Runaway teenagers -- Juvenile fiction
- African American teenage girls
- YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Social Themes / Friendship
- Alcoholism -- Fiction
- Family secrets -- Juvenile fiction
- Friendship in adolescence -- Juvenile fiction
- Young adult 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
- Parent and teenager -- Juvenile fiction
- Quests (Expeditions) -- Juvenile fiction
- Dysfunctional families
Author
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Label
The porcupine of truth, Bill Konigsberg
Language
eng
Index
no index present
resource.interestAgeLevel
14-19, Brodart
resource.interestGradeLevel
9-12, Brodart
Literary form
fiction
Main title
The porcupine of truth
Oclc number
890912329
Responsibility statement
Bill Konigsberg
resource.studyProgramName
Accelerated Reader, UG, 4.4, 12, 174471.Reading Counts, High School, 5.2, 20, 66025.
Summary
Seventeen-year-old New Yorker Carson Smith is resigned to spending his summer in Billings, Montana, helping his mom take care of his father, a dying alcoholic he doesn't really know. Then he meets Aisha Stinson, a beautiful girl who has run away from her difficult family, and Pastor John Logan, who's long held a secret regarding Carson's grandfather, who disappeared without warning or explanation thirty years before. Together, Carson and Aisha embark on an epic road trip to find the answers that might save Carson's dad, restore his fragmented family, and discover the "Porcupine of Truth" in all of their lives
Target audience
adolescent
Incoming Resources
- Has instance3