Breakout / Paul Fleischman.
Author: Fleischman, Paul.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Chicago : Cricket Books, 2003.
ISBN: 0812626966 :
Description: 124 p. ; 22 cm.
Subject: Self-perception Fiction.
Interpersonal relations Fiction.
Runaways Fiction.
Foundlings Fiction.
Traffic congestion Fiction.
Los Angeles (Calif.) Fiction.
Notes: "A Marcato book."
Summary: A young woman presents a play based on her life as a seventeen-year-old runaway whose escape from her foster home in Los Angeles is thwarted by an all-day traffic jam, an event which provides time for her to explore her free-floating identity, hunger for her unknown mother, and yearning for human connection.
