ROAD TRIP!
Not every road trip looks the same, but all these books invite you on a trip of some kind - in a car,
across the country, overseas, or just on a journey through life!
Click on the red author name and book image to link to interviews, excerpts or book trailers about these books and authors.
across the country, overseas, or just on a journey through life!
Click on the red author name and book image to link to interviews, excerpts or book trailers about these books and authors.
Thirteen Little blue envelopesby Maureen Johnson
When seventeen-year-old Ginny receives a packet of mysterious envelopes from her favorite aunt, she leaves New Jersey to criss cross Europe on a sort of scavenger hunt that transforms her life. |
Amy & roger's epic detour
by Morgan Matson
After the death of her father, Amy, a high school student and Roger, a college freshman, set out on a carefully planned road trip from California to Connecticut, but wind up taking many detours, forcing Amy to face her worst fears and come to terms with her grief and guilt. |
crash into me
by Albert Borris
Four suicidal teenagers go on a "celebrity suicide road trip," visiting the graves of famous people who have killed themselves, with the intention of ending their lives in Death Valley, California. |
Defining dulcie
by Paul Acampora
When sixteen-year-old Dulcie's father dies, her mother makes a decision to move them to California, where Dulcie makes an equally radical decision to steal her dad's old truck and head back home. |
Jerk, californiaby Jonathan Friesen
Plagued by Tourette's syndrome and a stepfather who despises him, Sam meets an old man in his small Minnesota town who sends him on a road trip designed to help him discover the truth about his life. Here is some other good stuff to review about Jerk, California. |
zane's traceby Allan Wolf
Believing he has killed his grandfather, Zane Guesswind heads for his mother's Zanesville, Ohio, grave to kill himself, driving the 1969 Plymouth Barracuda his long-gone father left behind, and meeting along the way assorted characters who help him discover who he really is. |
Hit the roadby Caroline B. Cooney
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. |
Homecomingby Cynthia Voigt
The Tillerman kids' mother just left them one day in a car in a mall parking lot. Their father, too, had left them years before. So, as usual, it was up to thirteen-year-old Dicey, the oldest of four, to take care of everything, make all the decisions, feed them, and find places to sleep, This is the story of their search for a home and identity. |
sister slam and the poetic motormouth road tripby Linda Oatman High
In this novel told in slam verse, best friends and aspiring poets Laura and Twig embark on a road trip after graduating from high school, from Pennsylvania to New York City, to compete at slam poetry events. |
rules of the roadby Joan Bauer
Meet Jenna Boller, star employee at Gladstone Shoe Store in Chicago. Standing a gawky 5'11' at 16 years old, Jenna is the kind of girl most likely to stand out in the crowd for all the wrong reasons. But that doesn't stop Madeline Gladstone, the president of Gladstone's Shoes, from hiring Jenna to drive her cross country in a last ditch effort to stop Elden Gladstone from taking over his mother's company and turning a quality business into a shop-and-schlock empire. Now Jenna Boller shoe salesperson is about to become a shoe-store spy as she joins her crusty old employer for an eye-opening adventure that will teach them both the rules of the road and the rules of life. |
paper towns
by John Green
One month before graduating from his Central Florida high school, Quentin "Q" Jacobsen basks in the predictable boringness of his life until the beautiful and exciting Margo Roth Spiegelman, Q's neighbor and classmate, takes him on a midnight adventure and then mysteriously disappears. Q and friends them embark on a road trip to try to find her. |
The Miles between
by Mary E. Pearson
Seventeen-year-old Destiny keeps a painful childhood secret all to herself until she and three classmates from her exclusive boarding school take off on an unauthorized road trip in search of "one fair day." |
angry management: three novellasby Chris Crutcher
A collection of short stories featuring characters from earlier books by Chris Crutcher. "Kyle Manard and the Craggy Face of the Moon" takes Angus Bethune and Sarah Byrnes on a road trip to Reno to confront the mother who abandoned her years before. |
two-way streetby Lauren Barnholdt
There are two sides to every break-up. Jordan and Courtney are an unlikely couple, but totally clicked. They're even going to the same college, and driving cross-country together for orientation. Find out what happens when Jordan dumps Courtney before the big trip - and what he's been hiding. CHECK THE SWAN CATALOG TO FIND THIS BOOK IN A LIBRARY NEAR YOU! |
ALL THE wayby Andy Behrens A road trip becomes the "sex drive" when Ian convinces his best friends to travel 900 miles with him so he can meet Danielle, an online friend who just might have sex with him. . CHECK THE SWAN CATALOG TO FIND THIS BOOK IN A LIBRARY NEAR YOU! |
getting lost with boysby Hailey Abbott
Cordelia Packer hates the unexpected, but she's in for a surprise when Jacob Stein offers to be her travel companion, all the way from San Diego to her sister's place in northern California. Before she knows it, her neatly laid out summer plan has turned into a wild road trip. CHECK THE SWAN CATALOG TO FIND THIS BOOK IN A LIBRARY NEAR YOU! |
going bovineby Libba Bray Cameron Smith, a disaffected sixteen-year-old diagnosed with mad cow disease, sets off on a road trip with a death-obsessed, video-gaming dwarf he meets in the hospital in an attempt to find a cure. |