![]() ![]() ![]() “I can’t keep living the way I used to live-swinging for the fences, believing that things are going to work out, that everything is worth fighting for, and that I am brave and strong enough to change my reality, because I’m not and I can’t,” Amber insists when those who love her fight to restore her hope.ĭuring the SCBWI New York conference this past January, editor Alvina Ling of Little, Brown Books for Young Readers praised 'Sorta Like a Rock Star' as an outstanding example of first-person voice in YA lit. “Sorta Like a Rock Star” shines for its voice-the almost-eternally upbeat, snappy dialogue of its 16-year-old narrator, Amber, when she’s at her highest points, and the grim, spare-no-feelings responses she hurls into the world when all that she has known crashes around her. ![]()
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