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Sorta Like a Rock Star

By Matthew Quick (Hardcover Book, 2010)

Amber Appleton lives in a bus. Ever since her mom's boyfriend kicked them out, Amber, her mom, and her totally loyal dog, Bobby Big Boy (aka Thrice B) have been camped out in the back of Hello Yellow (the school bus her mom drives). Still, Amber, the self-proclaimed princess of hope and girl of unyielding optimism, refuses to sweat the bad stuff. But when a fatal tragedy threatens Amber's optimism--and her way of life, can Amber continue to be the rock star of hope?

With an oddball cast of characters, and a heartwarming, inspiring story, this novel unveils a beautifully beaten-up world of laughs, loyalty, and hard-earned hope. The world is Amber's stage, and Amber is, well...she's sorta like a rock star. True? True.

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- Format: Hardcover Book
- Price: $16.99 US/$19.99 CAN
- ISBN-13: 9780316043526
- On Sale Date: 05/01/2010
- Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
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Matthew Quick (aka Q) is the author of The Silver Linings Playbook (Sarah Crichton Books / Farrar, Straus & Giroux) and three young adult novels, Sorta Like a Rock Star, Boy21, and Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock (Little, Brown & Co.). His work has received many honors--including a PEN/Hemingway Award Honorable Mention--been translated into many languages, and called "beautiful...first-rate" by The New York Times Book Review. The Weinstein Company and David O. Russell have adapted The Silver Linings Playbook into a film starring Robert De Niro, Bradley Cooper, and Jennifer Lawrence. Matthew lives in Massachusetts with his wife, novelist Alicia Bessette. His website is www.matthewquickwriter.com.

Praise for The Silver Linings Playbook:
Honorable mention for PEN/Hemingway Award for First Fiction

"[This] offbeat story has all the markings of a crowd-pleaser."--Publishers Weekly

"Its judicious blending of pop-culture experience with richly persuasive characterizations (including a beautiful indirect one of Pat's overburdened mom) make the book a winner. A first novel that doggedly does its own thing (we're reminded of Frederick Exley's A Fan's Notes). Most readers will find Pat just about irresistible."
--Kirkus

"More than a promising debut or an inspiring love story, this novel offers us the gift of healing."
--Roland Merullo, author of A Little Love Story

"This is a funny, touching performance on the part of Mr. Quick-and the beginning, I hope, of a big career."
--Dave King, author if The Ha-Ha

"Tender, soulful, hilarious, and true, this is a wonderful debut."
--Justin Cronin, PEN/Hemingway Award-winning author of Mary And O'Neil and The Summer Guest

"[A] charming debut novel... Mr. Quick guides the reader through the mounting tensions--a braiding of hope, illusion, befuddlement, and newly discovered truths."
-- Wall Street Journal