Amber Appleton is a hope spreader. She befriends stray dogs, Korean immigrants, nursing home residents, kids with disabilities, and a lonely Vietnam veteran. Amber is bound and determined to make the world a better place.
And Amber is homeless. She sleeps in the back of a school bus that her single mother drives during the day, warmed only by a few blankets and her dog Bobby Big Boy. Amber and her mother have been living this way since Mom's last boyfriend threw them out into the street.
Through determination and faith, Amber has managed to succeed in school and become an advocate for society's misfits.
Until the night her mother goes missing and is eventually found dead.
Even though her friends rally around her, Amber sinks into a depression, stops going to school, and barely leaves her room in her newly adoptive home. Then one day, a crisis occurs that she cannot ignore, and slowly she begins to come back to her radically changed life.
Part Maniac Magee, part It's a Wonderful Life, this book runs the gamut of emotions. You will root for Amber all the way, even in her meanest moods.
-- Kifflie
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