Chapter 1: Fall, 1991
Thirteen-year-old Stephen has run away again. He's out there somewhere with his gang, all of them dressed for the dark in black-hooded sweatshirts, oversized team jackets, ball caps, baggy pants that ride low on their hips.

Reader's Guide
The introduction, discussion questions, suggested reading list, and author biography that follow are intended to enhance your group's reading of Deborah Digges's The Stardust Lounge, a mother's story of her son's harrowing adolescence and of how she

Essay
Buster the epileptic bulldog died in the fall of 1997, the day before Stephen's twentieth birthday. Buster's last six months had been difficult. His body was failing. He had developed a terrible arthritis and the medications, while easing his pain, caused