A Room on Lorelei Street

A room is not much. It is not arms holding you. Not a kiss on the forehead. Not a packed lunch or a remembered birthday. Just a room. But for seventeen-year-old Zoe, struggling to shed the suffocating responsibility of her alcoholic mother and the controlling guilt of her grandmother, a rented room on Lorelei Street is a fierce grab for control of her own future. Zoe rents her room from Opal Keats, an eccentric old lady who has a difficult past of her own, but who chooses to live in the possibility of the future. Zoe tries to find that same possibility in her own future, promising that she will never go crawling back. But with all odds against her, can a seventeen-year-old with a job slinging hash make it on her own? Zoe struggles with this worry and the guilt of abandoning her mother as she goes to lengths that even she never dreamed she would in order to keep the room on Lorelei Street.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
Published: 09/30/2008
ISBN: 9780312380199
Pages: 270
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.80d
Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 102709 / Room on Lorelei Street
Reading Level: 4.2 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 8