num_pages: 144
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.
language: English
title: Breakout
titlecomplete: Breakout
genres: Fiction, Coming Of Age, Realistic Fiction, Young Adult
ratings_count: 113
places: Los Angeles, California
awards: awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Young People's Literature
publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers