Fleischman, Paul.

Breakout / Paul Fleischman. - 1st ed. - Chicago : Cricket Books, 2003. - 124 p. ; 22 cm.

"A Marcato Book."

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, her hunger for her unknown mother, and her yearning for human connection.

HBK.

0812626966 (alk. paper)

2003012264


Self-perception--Fiction.
Interpersonal relations--Fiction.
Runaways--Fiction.
Foundlings--Fiction.
Traffic congestion--Fiction.


Los Angeles (Calif.)--Fiction.

PZ7.F59918 / Br 2003

813.6 / FLE