Riding Out the Storm

A Novel

Fiction - YA, Social Issues, Kids, Teen
Cover of the book Riding Out the Storm by Sis Deans, Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)
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Author: Sis Deans ISBN: 9781429950398
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. (BYR) Publication: February 28, 2012
Imprint: Henry Holt and Co. (BYR) Language: English
Author: Sis Deans
ISBN: 9781429950398
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)
Publication: February 28, 2012
Imprint: Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)
Language: English

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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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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