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22) Hit the road
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Brittany acts as chauffeur for her grandmother and three other eighty-plus-year-old women going to what is supposedly their college reunion, on a long drive that involves lies, theft, and kidnappings.
Author
Publisher
Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA), LLC
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Best friends Hannah and Zoe, seventeen, leave their down-and-out New Jersey town and drive west, chasing storms, making new friends, and seeking the intangibles--audacity, insouciance, happiness--that their lives have lacked.
25) 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.
Author
Series
Dear Mrs. LaRue volume 3
Publisher
Blue Sky Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Mrs. LaRue takes a cross-country drive with her hospitalized neighbor's cats and her own dog, Ike, who keeps the cats' owner informed of their misadventures through a series of postcards.
Author
Series
VIP volume 2
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year old Mackenzie "Mac" Lowell accompanies her favorite boy band, Perfect Storm, on another road trip and chronicles her experiences on tour.jueni
Author
Series
Fly Guy volume 5
Publisher
Cartwheel Books/Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
When Buzz, his parents, and his pet fly go on a road trip and get lost, Fly Guy comes to the rescue to help them find their way home.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Sadie and her father have been planning a trip to the zoo for a long time but something always gets in the way, so when they finally start out and her father sees some raindrops, Sadie insists there is no rain on her side of the car.
30) Wagons ho!
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Co
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Compares the experiences of Jenny Johnson and Katie Miller as their families move from Missouri to Oregon, one in 1846 and one in 2011.
31) Good and gone
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
©2017.
Language
English
Description
While on a road trip with her depressed older brother and gay friend, to find a missing musician, fifteen-year-old Lexi grapples with painful memories of sexual assualt by her ex-boyfriend.--Provided by Publisher.
32) This old van
Author
Publisher
Sterling Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Vidal's soft pastel palette and comically inventive, Peter Max-inspired illustrations -- from the grinning, wide-eyed bulldozers to the hard-hat-wearing mountain goats -- are reminiscent of the Saturday-morning-cartoons of the 1960s... This intergenerational romp filled with sight gags and puns will keep readers humming as they pore over each detail-packed page." -- Kirkus Reviews
33) Things that grow
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
The Boston Globe "Love Letters" columnist and author of Chemistry Lessons follows the experiences of a girl who learns about life and love while on a road trip to scatter her late grandmother's ashes in favorite gardens.
Author
Series
VIP volume 1
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Mackenzie Lowell goes on the road with her favorite boy band when her mom gets a job as the band's tour manager.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Charlie, twelve, who has autism and obsessive compulsive disorder, must endure a cross-country trip with his siblings and a strange babysitter to visit their war-journalist father, who will undergo brain surgery after being injured in Afghanistan.
Author
Series
Timmy Failure volume 4
Language
English
Description
In this fourth book of Timmy Failure's memoirs, Timmy is forced to take his investigation into stolen charity funds on the road when his mother forces him to help her boyfriend move to Chicago. They are on the road in a cross-country trip that includes Timmy's mom, Total the polar bear, Doorman Dave, and criminal mastermind Molly Moskins. It's a world gone mad, where good becomes bad, and Timmy Failure is a condemned man.
39) Wrong way summer
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Claire, already fed up with her father's fantastical stories, is outraged when he sells their house and moves her and her little brother into a converted van for an adventure.
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
©2021.
Language
English
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Description
During a road trip, thirteen-year-old Olivia, a budding photographer, tries to recreate a Treasure Hunt she once shared with her sixteen-year-old sister, Ruth, while watching for signs that Ruth's depression is back.
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