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Breakout
Contributor(s): Fleischman, Paul (Author)

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ISBN: 0689871899     ISBN-13: 9780689871894
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: February 2005
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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
Age Level: 12-17
Grade Level: 7-12
Lexile Measure: 860(Not Available)
Physical Information: 0.41" H x 5.06" W x 6.98" L (0.24 lbs) 137 pages
Themes:
- Geographic Orientation - California
- Locality - Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA
Features: Ikids, Price on Product
Review Citations: Ingram Paperback Advance 01/01/2005 pg. 13
Ingram Children's Advance 01/01/2005 pg. 59
PW Notes and Reprints 01/17/2005 pg. 58
Publishers Weekly 01/17/2005
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 70392
Reading Level: 5.4   Interest Level: Upper Grades   Point Value: 4.0
 
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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.
 
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