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1) Wayward son
Author
Series
Simon Snow volume 2
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
The story is supposed to be over. Simon Snow did everything he was supposed to do. He beat the villain. He won the war. He even fell in love. Now comes the good part, right? Now comes the happily ever after... So why can't Simon Snow get off the couch? What he needs, according to his best friend, is a change of scenery. He just needs to see himself in a new light. That's how Simon and Penny and Baz end up in a vintage convertible, tearing across the...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Formats
Description
"After spending most of high school as the quiet girl, Ellie Kobata is ready to take some risks and have a life-changing summer, starting with her Anti-Wallflower List—thirteen items she’s going to check off one by one. She’s looking forward to riding rollercoasters, making her art Instagram public (maybe), and going on an epic road-trip with her best friend Lia. But when number four on Ellie’s list goes horribly wrong—revenge on Jack Yasuda—she’s...
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Golden "Go" Jennings wasn't supposed to be on Bus 21 the day it blew up in New York City. Neither was her boyfriend, Chandler. But they were. And so was Rudy, a cute stranger Go shared a connection with the night before. And Caroline, a girl whose silence ended up costing nineteen people their lives. Though it's been a year since the bombing, Go isn't any closer to getting over what happened. With Chan completely closed off to even talking about it,...
Author
Series
Fat Angie volume 2
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sophomore year has just begun, and Angie is miserable. Her girlfriend, KC, has moved away; her only friend, Jake, is keeping his distance; and the resident bully has ramped up a vicious and targeted campaign to humiliate her. An over-the-top statue dedication planned for her sister, who died in Iraq, is almost too much to bear, and it doesn't help that her mother has placed a symbolic empty urn on their mantel. At the ceremony, a soldier hands Angie...
Author
Series
Asylum novels (Madeleine Roux) volume 3
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
Description
Dan, Abby, and Jordan embark on a senior road trip to New Orleans, but as creepy occurrences escalate into near-death experiences, the trio realizes they will be lucky to make it out of this senior trip alive.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Sixteen-year-old Nora Wakelin has always felt like an outsider in her own family. Her parents and older sister love her, but they don't understand anything about her: not her passion for music, not her all-encompassing crush on her bandmate Daniel (who is very much unavailable), not her recklessness and impulsiveness. Nora has always imagined that her biological mother might somehow provide the answer as to why she feels like such an outsider. Through...
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Ali Collins doesn't have room in her life for clutter or complications. So when her estranged father passes away and leaves her his only prized possession-a 1968 Firebird convertible-Ali knows she won't keep it. Not when it reminds her too much of all her father's unfulfilled promises. And especially not when a buyer three hundred miles up the Pacific coast is offering enough money for the car to save her childhood home from foreclosure. There's only...
10) 806: a novel
Author
Publisher
Tanglewood
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
KT, sixteen, learns that her father was Donor 806, discovers two half-brothers, and travels with them from Missouri to California to meet their biological father, redefining their notions of "family" along the way.
11) In honor
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Three days after she learns that her brother Finn died serving in Iraq, Honor receives a letter from him asking her to drive his car from Texas to California for a concert, and when his estranged best friend shows up suddenly and offers to accompany her, they set off on a road trip that reveals much about all three of them.
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
In England, newly pregnant seventeen-year-old Hattie and her gin-drinking great-aunt Gloria, who is in the early stages of dementia, set out together on a road trip of self-discovery--Gloria to finally confront the secrets of her past before they are wiped from her memory forever and Hattie to face the hard choices that will determine her future.
Author
Publisher
Viking, An imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
©2020.
Language
English
Description
When two high school students with different ideas about their futures meet while touring colleges, they come to value each other's point of view, and an unexpected romance unfolds.
Fitz Holton waits in fear for the day his single mother's early-onset Alzheimer's starts stealing her memory. He vows to stay close to home to care for her, despite the college tour she's forcing him on. Juniper Ramirez is counting down the days until she can leave home,...
Author
Publisher
Christy Ottaviano Books, Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Brothers Teodoro and Manny Avila take a road trip to address Manny's PTSD following his tour in Iraq, and to help T. change his life and win the heart of Wendy Martinez. Includes information and resources about PTSD.
Author
Language
English
Description
Mira needs to get home for the holidays. Badly. But when an incoming blizzard results in a canceled connecting flight, it looks like she might get stuck at the airport indefinitely. And then Harper, Mira's glamorous seatmate from her initial flight, offers her a ride. Harper and her three friends can drop Mira off on their way home. But as they set off, Mira realizes fellow travelers are all total strangers. And every one of them is hiding something....
Author
Language
English
Description
Although distraught, Happi is also unsettled by the way people have idealized the memory of her sister who was killed after attending a social justice rally -- why do people have to be perfect in order to be missed? As a way to honor the memory, however, Happi and her other sister Genny go on a roadtrip using the original "Green Book" -- but the trip reveals secrets neither sister knew about the dead Kezi.
19) Let's get lost
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
During her cross-country adventures following the tragic death of her family, Leila touches the lives of four strangers -- Hudson, Bree, Elliot, and Sonia. While forever changing the lives of these four, Leila also discovers an important truth about herself.
20) Right of way
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Told in their separate voices, seventeen-year-old Peyton convinces eighteen-year-old Jace to drive her from a Florida wedding toward her Connecticut home with the intention of staying in North Carolina rather than face her parents' marital and financial problems, while both avoid the obvious attraction they have felt since they met at Christmas.
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