Presents the first generation of female motorists who drove cars for fun, profit, and to make a statement about the evolving role of women.

Twelve-year-old Iris and her grandmother, both deaf, drive from Texas to Alaska armed with Iris's plan to help Blue-55, a whale unable to communicate with other whales.

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.

After Mama Lacy's death, Fella was forced to move in with her grandmother, Mrs. Madison. The move brought Fella all sorts of comforts she wasn't used to at home, but it also meant saying goodbye to her sister Zoey (a.k.a. Zany) and her other mother, Mama Shannon. Though Mama Shannon fought hard to keep Fella, it was no use. The marriage act is still a few years away and the courts thought Fella would be better off with a blood relation. Already heartbroken,...

"When Father Quixote, a local priest of the Spanish village of El Toboso who claims ancestry to Cervantes' fictional Don Quixote, is elevated to the rank of monsignor through a clerical error, he sets out on a journey to Madrid to purchase purple socks appropriate to his new station. Accompanying him on his mission is his best friend, Sancho, the Communist ex-mayor of the village who argues politics and religion with Quixote and rescues him from the...

When her sister becomes ill, Annie and her dog Carson set out on a trip across Canada to see her, visiting Saskatchewan, Quebec, and Prince Edward Island on the way.

"Norah Simon's summer road trip is going to be absolutely perfect. She's leaving California for the first time in her life. She's interviewing at her dream college (the place for future videa game animators). And she's reconnecting with her childhood friend, Skyler Hutton - the boy who taught her to draw, the boy she still hasn't forgotten about after all these years. What could go wrong?"--

"As if simply being fourteen-years-old weren't bad enough -- what with the usual teenage angst and uncertainty, Vicky Austin's always comforting and reliable home life is changing completely. Her brother John is going off to college in the fall. Maggy, an orphan taken in by the Austins two years ago, has gone to live with her legal guardian. And the rest of Vicky's family is moving from their quiet house in the country to the heart of New York City....

When Chloe Pierce's mom forbids her to apply for a spot at the dance conservatory of her dreams, she devises a secret plan to drive two hundred miles to the nearest audition. But Chloe hits her first speed bump when her annoying neighbor Eli insists upon hitching a ride, threatening to tell Chloe's mom if she leaves him and his smelly dog, Geezer, behind. So now Chloe's chasing her ballet dreams down the east coast-two unwanted (but kinda cute) passengers...

"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