The Resource The porcupine of truth, Bill Konigsberg
The porcupine of truth, Bill Konigsberg
Resource Information
The item The porcupine of truth, Bill Konigsberg represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Jacksonville Public Library.This item is available to borrow from 8 library branches.
Resource Information
The item The porcupine of truth, Bill Konigsberg represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Jacksonville Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from 8 library branches.
- Summary
- Seventeen-year-old New Yorker Carson Smith is resigned to spending his summer in Billings, Montana, helping his mom take care of his father, a dying alcoholic he doesn't really know. Then he meets Aisha Stinson, a beautiful girl who has run away from her difficult family, and Pastor John Logan, who's long held a secret regarding Carson's grandfather, who disappeared without warning or explanation thirty years before. Together, Carson and Aisha embark on an epic road trip to find the answers that might save Carson's dad, restore his fragmented family, and discover the "Porcupine of Truth" in all of their lives
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 325 pages
- Isbn
- 9780545754927
- Label
- The porcupine of truth
- Title
- The porcupine of truth
- Statement of responsibility
- Bill Konigsberg
- Subject
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- Billings (Mont.) -- Juvenile fiction
- Children of alcoholics -- Juvenile fiction
- Dysfunctional families -- Juvenile fiction
- Family secrets -- Juvenile fiction
- Friendship in adolescence -- Juvenile fiction
- JUVENILE FICTION / General
- Lesbian teenagers -- Juvenile fiction
- African American teenage girls -- Juvenile fiction
- Quests (Expeditions) -- Juvenile fiction
- Runaway teenagers -- Juvenile fiction
- Young adult
- Young adult fiction
- Parent and teenager -- Juvenile fiction
- Bildungsromans
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Seventeen-year-old New Yorker Carson Smith is resigned to spending his summer in Billings, Montana, helping his mom take care of his father, a dying alcoholic he doesn't really know. Then he meets Aisha Stinson, a beautiful girl who has run away from her difficult family, and Pastor John Logan, who's long held a secret regarding Carson's grandfather, who disappeared without warning or explanation thirty years before. Together, Carson and Aisha embark on an epic road trip to find the answers that might save Carson's dad, restore his fragmented family, and discover the "Porcupine of Truth" in all of their lives
- Cataloging source
- NJQ/DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Konigsberg, Bill
- Dewey number
- [Fic]
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PZ7.K83518
- LC item number
- Po 2015
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Dysfunctional families
- Children of alcoholics
- Runaway teenagers
- Quests (Expeditions)
- Lesbian teenagers
- African American teenage girls
- Family secrets
- Parent and teenager
- Friendship in adolescence
- Billings (Mont.)
- JUVENILE FICTION / General
- Target audience
- adolescent
- Label
- The porcupine of truth, Bill Konigsberg
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocn890912329
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 325 pages
- Isbn
- 9780545754927
- Lccn
- 2014027136
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
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- 1177990
- (Sirsi) o890912329
- (OCoLC)890912329
- Label
- The porcupine of truth, Bill Konigsberg
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocn890912329
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 325 pages
- Isbn
- 9780545754927
- Lccn
- 2014027136
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
-
- 1177990
- (Sirsi) o890912329
- (OCoLC)890912329
Subject
- Billings (Mont.) -- Juvenile fiction
- Children of alcoholics -- Juvenile fiction
- Dysfunctional families -- Juvenile fiction
- Family secrets -- Juvenile fiction
- Friendship in adolescence -- Juvenile fiction
- JUVENILE FICTION / General
- Lesbian teenagers -- Juvenile fiction
- African American teenage girls -- Juvenile fiction
- Quests (Expeditions) -- Juvenile fiction
- Runaway teenagers -- Juvenile fiction
- Young adult
- Young adult fiction
- Parent and teenager -- Juvenile fiction
- Bildungsromans
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