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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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Signed, Skye Harper
by Carol Lynch Williams
In 1972, while her idol, Mark Spitz, is in Germany competing in the Olympics, 15-year-old Winston, her Nanny, and her crush, Steve, head to Las Vegas in Steve's parents' motorhome to reconnect with Winston's mother, who left 10 years before to become a star.
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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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Catacomb
by Madeleine Roux
Embarking on a road trip to New Orleans after the events of their senior year, Dan, Abby and Jordan realize that they are being followed and photographed before Dan begins receiving messages from someone he believes is dead.
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Right of way
by Lauren Barnholdt
Told in their separate voices, 17-year-old Peyton convinces 18-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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In real life
by Jessica Love
When her senior year spring break plans are ruined by a rule-breaker, Hannah impulsively embarks on a road trip to Vegas to meet an online friend she's never met but with whom she has been communicating since she was in 8th grade, in order to declare her feelings for him.
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Don't fail me now
by Una LaMarche
Meeting for the first time, interracial half-siblings Michelle, an impoverished African-American whose mother is in prison, and Leah, a white, middle-class college-prep student, embark on a cross-country road trip to confront their absentee father before he dies.
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Catch & release
by Blythe Woolston
Eighteen-year-old Polly and impulsive, seventeen-year-old Odd survive an deadly outbreak of flesh-eating bacteria, but resulting wounds have destroyed their plans for the future and with little but their unlikely friendship and a shared affection for trout fishing, they set out on a road trip through the West.
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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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Wish you were here
by Catherine Clark
On a free-wheeling bus tour of the West with assorted family members, senior citizens galore, and one boy her age, sixteen-year-old Ariel writes postcards to her maybe-boyfriend and others while trying to cope with the effects of her parents' divorce. By the author of The Alison Rules.
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Jerk, California
by Jonathan Friesen
Struggling with the physical and emotional strain of having Tourette's syndrome, Sam Carrier does his best to fit in to the world that makes him feel like an outsider, but when troubles begin to brew at home with his step-father, Sam discovers something about his real father that makes him better understand who he is and the man he wants to be.
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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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Thou shalt not road trip
by Antony John
Sixteen-year-old Luke Dorsey is sent on a cross-country tour to promote his best-selling spiritual self-help guide accompanied by his agnostic older brother and former girlfriend Fran, from whom he learns some things about salvation.
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You don't know about me
by Brian Meehl
In a bold reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Billy Albright's "river" is the meandering highway, which carries him to dark and comedic outposts as he zigzags across the American West in a geocaching treasure hunt that will ultimately lead him to the realization that the path to self-discovery is "mega" off-road.
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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—magnificent, intangible things with no practical purpose but when embraced, can change everything.
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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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Finding somewhere
by Joseph Monninger
Desperate to save an old horse slated to be euthanized and escape their dead-end New England town, best friends Hattie and Delores embark on a road trip through the American West that helps them explore the healing power of friendship while confronting the reasons they left home. By the author of Wish.
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Damaged
by Amy Lynn Reed
Numb after the death of her best friend, Camille, Kinsey starts to shut down but Hunter, Camille's mysterious boyfriend, has other ideas and whisks Kinsey off on a multi-state road trip to forget the ghosts of their pasts and their own fears.
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The paradox of vertical flight
by Emil Ostrovski
When, on his 18th birthday, Jack Polovsky's almost-suicide is interrupted by his ex-girlfriend Jess' call saying she is in labor, he goes to the hospital and impulsively snatches the baby then hits the road with Jess and his best friend Tommy to introduce baby Socrates to Jack's aging grandmother.
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This one time with Julia
by David Lampson
After his parents die and his twin brother Alvin disappears, Joe falls in love with Julia, but being so blinded by her seductive, dysfunctional family, Joe can't see the truth about his brother's disappearance--until he accidentally stumbles upon Alvin's killer.
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You are here
by Jennifer E. Smith
Uncovering the family secret that she had a twin who died two days after he was born, Emma Healy begins to understand why she has always felt that something was missing in her life and so takes a road trip to visit his grave with her neighbor, Peter, who turns out to have more in common with her than she could have ever imagined.
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