Ballads of Suburbia by Stephanie Kuehnert
If you want a book that will haunt you, thrill you, make you cry, entice you to want to break something, and leave your heart warmed, then you need to read this book. Ballads of Suburbia by Stephanie Kuehnert is her second book that deals with real social issues and real emotional pain. (Please read the warning before you pick up the book, since this may not be a book that every adult would want you to read.) The story's protagonist, Kara, a smart girl who partied too hard, left her suburb of Chicago (Oak Park) to fix her life after a near heroin overdose. The epilogue, that acts as a prologue, shows Kara in the front seat of the car with her best friend, Stacey, riding down the streets through Chicago to Berywn, another suburb where Stacey lives. It has been four years since Kara has been back.
Click on the buttons at the top of the page (or within the text on any page) to learn more about the book, read the epilogue (that acts as the prologue), learn about the author, find activities to complete after reading the novel, find resources for issues, and listen to some awesome music.
Sit back and enjoy yourself. This is one hell of a ride.
~Melissa Williamson, PhD
Questions? Comments? Click here.
Click on the buttons at the top of the page (or within the text on any page) to learn more about the book, read the epilogue (that acts as the prologue), learn about the author, find activities to complete after reading the novel, find resources for issues, and listen to some awesome music.
Sit back and enjoy yourself. This is one hell of a ride.
~Melissa Williamson, PhD
Questions? Comments? Click here.