Breakout
By: Paul Fleischman.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Cricket Books
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 124
Subjects: Self-perception -- Juvenile fiction; Interpersonal relations -- Juvenile fiction; Missing persons -- Juvenile fiction; Foundlings -- Juvenile fiction; Traffic congestion -- Juvenile fiction; Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Juvenile fiction
Genres: Juvenile fiction
Description: 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.