num_pages: 242
description: From a major new talent, author E.R Frank, comes a stunning and complex novel about America, a boy who got lost in the system from an early age. A strong, hard-hitting narrative that deals with a shattered past and the harsh, and often tragic realities of life. "I'm in America, and America is in me" America is a boy, a boy who gets lost easy and is not worth the trouble of finding. By the age of fifteen, America has already spent his life nowhere and wound up a nobody. Abandoned by his natural mother and separated from his foster mother, America is a runaway living for months on the streets and in Central Park, a patient at the Applegate Residential treatment Facility to the north of New York City, and finally now at Ridgeway Hospital where he meets psychiatrist Dr. B. But Dr. B takes the trouble to find him. With abiding care and gentle coaxing he gradually draws America's story from him, caring more than America does himself about whether he lives or dies. Slowly America learns to deal with and come to terms with his past, until ultimately he begins to feel that America is found.
language: English
title: America Is Me
titlecomplete: America Is Me
genres: Young Adult, Banned Books, Abuse, Fostering, Mental Illness, Coming Of Age, Teen, Mental Health, Contemporary, Realistic Fiction
ratings_count: 1369
places: The United States of America
awards: awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Rhode Island Teen Book Award, awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Michigan Library Association Thumbs Up! Award, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis
category: Jugendbuch
publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, An imprint of Simon & Schuster