The porcupine of truth

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.

Item details

ISBN: 9780545648936 (alk. paper)
ISBN: 0545648939 (alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780545648943
ISBN: 0545648947
ISBN: 9780545754927
ISBN: 0545754925
Physical Description: print
regular print
325 pages ; 22 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York, NY : Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc., 2015.

Contents / Notes

Awards Note:

Stonewall Book Award for Young Adult Literature, 2016

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Dysfunctional families Juvenile fiction
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African Americans Fiction
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Children of alcoholics
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Friendship
Young adult fiction
Montana Billings

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