| Breakout Contributor(s): Fleischman, Paul (Author) |
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ISBN: 0689871899 ISBN-13: 9780689871894 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers OUR PRICE: $6.29 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2005 Annotation: This National Book Award finalist is now in paperback. Growing up in foster care, Del pens a one-woman play about a Los Angeles traffic jam, providing readers with a backstage pass into a young playwright's psyche as her play parallels her own life. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes - Adolescence & Coming Of Age - Juvenile Fiction | Family - Orphans & Foster Homes - Juvenile Fiction | Performing Arts - Music |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2003012264 |
| Lexile Measure: 860 |
| Physical Information: 0.41" H x 5.06" W x 6.98" (0.24 lbs) 137 pages |
| Themes: - Geographic Orientation - California - Locality - Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 70392 Reading Level: 5.4 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 4.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Del's lived in Los Angeles for seventeen years, bouncing among foster homes. Smart, sharp-tongued, and a master mimic, she's fed up with her world and with being Del. So she's changing her name and leaving both herself and L.A. behind -- until her escape lands her in an all-day traffic jam. Fast-forward eight years. It's opening night for the one-woman show Del has written and is starring in -- a show called Breakout about a Los Angeles traffic jam. As the novel flashes between Del's present and future, we get a backstage pass into this young playwright's psyche, watching her life being transformed into art, heartache into comedy, solitude into connection. And, finally, anger giving way to acceptance. |