A Room on Lorelei Street Contributor(s): Pearson, Mary E. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0312380194 ISBN-13: 9780312380199 Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: September 2008 Annotation: Can seventeen-year-old Zoe make it on her own? |
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BISAC Categories: - Young Adult Fiction | Social Themes - Self-esteem & Self-reliance - Young Adult Fiction | Family - Multigenerational - Young Adult Fiction | Social Themes - Drugs, Alcohol, Substance Abuse | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dewey: FIC | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Age Level: 14-18 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Grade Level: 9-13 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Lexile Measure: 740(Not Available) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.5" W x 8.4" L (0.75 lbs) 288 pages | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Features: Ikids, Price on Product, Price on Product - Canadian | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Quiz #: 102709 Reading Level: 4.2 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 8.0 |
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Publisher Description: A room is not much. It is not arms holding you. Not a kiss on the forehead. Not a packed lunch or a remembered birthday. Just a room. But for seventeen-year-old Zoe, struggling to shed the suffocating responsibility of her alcoholic mother and the controlling guilt of her grandmother, a rented room on Lorelei Street is a fierce grab for control of her own future. Zoe rents her room from Opal Keats, an eccentric old lady who has a difficult past of her own, but who chooses to live in the possibility of the future. Zoe tries to find that same possibility in her own future, promising that she will never go crawling back. But with all odds against her, can a seventeen-year-old with a job slinging hash make it on her own? Zoe struggles with this worry and the guilt of abandoning her mother as she goes to lengths that even she never dreamed she would in order to keep the room on Lorelei Street. |
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Contributor Bio(s): Pearson, Mary E.: - Mary E. Pearson is the author of bestselling, award-winning novels for teens. The Miles Between was named a Kirkus Best Book of the Year, and The Adoration of Jenna Fox was listed as a Bank Street Best Children's Book of the Year, an IRA Young Adult Choice, NYPL Stuff for the Teen Age, and a School Library Journal Best Book of the Year. She is also the author of A Room on Lorelei Street, David v. God, and Scribbler of Dreams. Pearson studied art at Long Beach State University, and worked as an artist before earning her teaching credential at San Diego State University. She writes full-time from her home in Carlsbad, California, where she lives with her husband and two dogs. |
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