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      Riding Out the Storm

      by Sis Deans
      Published
      Mar 2012
      Main Genre
      General Fiction General Fiction
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      176
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      Zach is riding the Greyhound bus through a snowstorm to visit his older brother Derek, whom he hasn't seen in seven months. That's when their parents finally went broke paying Derek's doctor's bills and had to give him up as a ward of the state. Nothing—not drawing in his sketchbook, not basketball—lets Zach forget that his brother is living in a mental institution five states away. But surprisingly, sitting next to a talkative teenage girl he nicknames Purplehead starts to take the edge off Zach's pain.

      Prompted by a chain of unpredictable events and by the people he meets along the way, Zach's cynical humor gives us a poignant look at medical insurance and health care systems for the mentally ill, and at the everyday fears, joys, and revelations of adolescence.

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      General Fiction

      Age Level

      Young Adult / Teens

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      Feb 2012 Henry Holt ISBN13 9781627792639 ISBN10 1627792635
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      First Edition Mar 2012 Henry Holt ISBN13 9780805093551 ISBN10 0805093559
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      Mar 2012 Henry Holt ISBN13 9781429950398 ISBN10 1429950390
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      Mar 2012 Henry Holt ISBN10 B0052UXF0K
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