Breakout Author:Paul Fleischman Del's lived in Los Angeles for seventeen years, bouncing among foster homes. Smart, sharp-tongued, and a master mimic, she's fed up with her world and with being Del. So she's changing her name and leaving both herself and L.A. behind -- until her escape lands her in an all-day traffic jam.Fast-forward eight years. It's opening night for the one... more »-woman show Del has written and is starring in -- a show called Breakout about a Los Angeles traffic jam. As the novel flashes between Del's present and future, we get a backstage pass into this young playwright's psyche, watching her life being transformed into art, heartache into comedy, solitude into connection. And, finally, anger giving way to acceptance.« less
ISBN-13: 9780606333900 ISBN-10: 0606333908 Reading Level: Young Adult Rating:
Interesting story the shifts from now to a flashback from childhood. At first it is hard to follow but as you get involved with the story it gets better. A good read of the upper level reading in middle/high school.