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The way back to you
by Michelle Andreani
Two teens grieving the death of a close friend embark on a spontaneous road trip across the Southwest to meet three strangers whose lives were saved by their friend's organs.
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Let's get lost
by Adi Alsaid
A love-seeking mechanic, a dramatic petty thief, a disappointed planner, and a broken-hearted teen all find their lives transformed as each shares whirlwind adventures with a girl in an insanely red car.
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Perfect escape
by Jennifer Brown
Feeling overshadowed by her older brother Grayson, whose OCD forces him to live a life of carefully coordinated routines, Kendra is driven to perfectionism until her reputation is tarnished by a cheating scandal that compels her to flee with her troubled sibling at her side.
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Jess, Chunk, and the road trip to infinity
by Kristin Elizabeth Clark
A transgender teen who was a boy when she last saw her estranged father embarks on a road trip halfway across the country with her best friend to attend her father's wedding. An adventure that reveals personal truths about the traveling pair and their feelings for one another.
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Stranger than fanfiction
by Chris Colfer
When four fans jokingly invite a world-famous kid actor on a cross-country trip, his surprising acceptance leads to a paparazzi-laden adventure of friendship, loss and revelations.
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Walk two moons
by Sharon Creech
After her mother leaves home suddenly, thirteen-year-old Sal and her grandparents take a car trip retracing her mother's route and Sal recounts the story of her friend Phoebe, whose mother also left.
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Mare's war
by Tanita S. Davis
Octavia and Tali learn about strength, independence, and courage when they take a car trip with their grandmother, who tells them about growing up black in 1940s Alabama and serving as a member of the Women's Army Corps during World War II.
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Mila 2.0
by Debra Driza
Living with her mother in a small Minnesota town where she accidentally stumbles on the truth about her identity as an experiment in artificial intelligence. Mila flees dangerous operatives who want to terminate her and a mysterious group that wants to exploit her advanced technology.
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Reunited
by Hilary Weisman Graham
Alice, Summer and Tiernan were best friends who broke up at the same time as their favorite band. Four years later, just before they are preparing to go off to college, the girls reluctantly come back together. Each one has their own motive for a road trip from Massachusetts to Austin, Texas, for the band's one-time-only reunion concert.
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An abundance of Katherines
by John Green
Always being dumped by girls named Katherine, Colin Singleton, a washed-up child prodigy with a Judge-Judy obsessed best friend, embarks on a quest to prove The Theorem of Underlying Katherine Predictability, which will impact all of his future relationships and change his life.
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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.
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Sweet evil
by Wendy Higgins
Discovering at the age of 16 that she is the daughter of a guardian angel and a demon--the only one of her kind--southern teen Anna struggles to fight her father's dark legacy while falling for the mysterious Kaidan.
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Lady renegades
by Rachel Hawkins
Harper Price must embark on a road trip with her best friend and her nemesis, Blythe, to rescue David, whose Oracle powers are spinning out of control.
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The last true love story
by Brendan Kiely
Hendrix and Corrina bust Hendrix's grandfather out of assisted living, and leave LA for New York in pursuit of freedom, truth, and love.
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In honor
by Jessi Kirby
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. 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.
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The Disenchantments
by Nina LaCour
Colby's post-high school plans have long been that he and his best friend Beth would tour with her band then spend a year in Europe, but when she announces that she will start college just after the tour, Colby struggles to understand why she changed her mind and what losing her means for his future.
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There will be lies
by Nick Lake
Shelby Cooper, nearly eighteen, has been overprotected by her single mother all her life but after a car accident, Shelby's life is transformed not only by the discovery of secrets about herself, but also by trips into "The Dreaming," where she is sent on a heroic quest wrapped in Native American mythology.
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Don't fail me now
by Una LaMarche
Interracial half-siblings come together for the first time and embark on a cross-country road trip to confront their absentee father before he dies.
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Open road summer
by Emery Lord
Seventeen-year-old Reagan tries to escape heartbreak and a bad reputation by going on tour with her country superstar best friend. Unfortunately she only finds more trouble as she falls for the sweet guy hired to pose as the singer's boyfriend.
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Amy & Roger's epic detour
by Morgan Matson
A tale presented in the style of a scrapbook follows the experiences of Amy Curry, who relocates from California to Connecticut for her senior year after the tragic, accidental death of her father, a challenging new start marked by unexpected feelings for a childhood friend.
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Be good be real be crazy
by Chelsey Philpot
Having been hopelessly in love with Mia ever since she first waltzed into his small Florida town, Homer agrees to help Mia move to a new home hundreds of miles away and realizes that the trip will be his last chance to tell her how he feels.
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Finding Paris
by Joy Preble
Unable to rely on her dysfunctional parents, Leo, a girl who aspires to become a doctor, reluctantly partners with a secretive physics student to investigate the disappearance of her free-spirited sister.
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Kissing in America
by Margo Rabb
Seeking comfort in romance novels and poetry after the death of her father, 16-year-old Eva forges a bond with Will and begins coming out of her shell until Will's sudden move to California forces her to confront painful realities.
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Catacomb
by Madeleine Roux
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.
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The museum of intangible things
by Wendy Wunder
Best friends Hannah and Zoe flee their disappointing adolescence and hit the road. Along the way, Hannah tries to keep Zoe sane, and Zoe dares Hannah to celebrate concepts sadly missing from her life: audacity, karma, God and love.
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