Sorta Like a Rockstar

Matthew Quick
(Young Adult - Y Quick)

Although 17-year-old Amber Appleton is experiencing homelessness, living in a school bus with her unfit mother, she is a relentless optimist who visits older adults at a nursing home, teaches English to Korean Catholic women with the use of rhythm and blues music, and befriends a solitary Vietnam veteran and his dog, but eventually she experiences one burden more than she can bear and slips into a deep depression.


Youth Experiencing Homelessness

  • Ask Me Why I Hurt: The Kids Nobody Wants and the Doctor Who Heals Them


  • Tales of Young Urban Squatters


  • Sorta Like a Rockstar


  • Almost Home


  • Money Boy


  • Smoke


  • Smack


  • Winterfolk