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Amelia Hits The Road

author: Moss, Marissa
Ten-year-old Amelia keeps a journal of the summer car trip she takes with her mother and sister to the Grand Canyon, Death Valley, and their California home town to visit Amelia's best friend.
FIC
year: 1999
copies: 26
call number/section: FIC
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Fly High, Fly Guy!

author: Arnold, Tedd
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.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 163
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 170
subjects: flies, automobile travel [X]

The True Meaning Of Smekday

author: Rex, Adam
In the chaotic turmoil that follows the Boov invasion of Earth, eleven-year-old Gratuity Tucci finds herself driving her mother's car to Florida, where all of the humans are being relocated, with her cat and a renegade extraterrestiral named J.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 49
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 740

Stink And The Great Guinea Pig Express

author: Mcdonald, Megan
Stink Moody, friends Webster and Sophie, and Mrs. Birdwistle visit tourist attractions in Virginia as they try to give away 101 guinea pigs rescued from a laboratory, although Stink is very reluctant to relinquish his favorite, Astro.
FIC
year: 2021
copies: 150
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 640

Joe And Sparky Get New Wheels

author: Michalak, Jamie
Sparky, a turtle who likes to stay in his shell, and Joe, a giraffe who lives to see the world, take off on a grand adventure when they find a deserted car by their home.
FIC
year: 2013
copies: 28
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 330
subjects: turtles, giraffes, automobile travel [X], giraffe

A Whole Nother Story

author: Soup, Cuthbert
Ethan Cheeseman and his children, ages eight, twelve, and fourteen, hope to settle in a nice small town, at least long enough to complete work on a time machine, but spies and government agents have been pursuing them for two years and are about to catch up.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 27
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 900
subjects: inventions, families, moving, household, automobile travel [X]

Larue Across America

author: Teague, Mark
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.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 48
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 900
subjects: automobile travel [X], dogs, cats, postcards

My Side Of The Car

author: Feiffer, Kate
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.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 16
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 650
subjects: fathers and daughters, rain and rainfall, automobile travel [X]

Wagons Ho!

author: Hallowell, George
Compares the experiences of Jenny Johnson and Katie Miller as their families move from Missouri to Oregon, one in 1846 and one in 2011.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 5
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 400

The Rocky Road Trip Of Lydia Goldblatt & Julie Graham-chang

author: Ignatow, Amy
Junior high girls Julie and Lydia are excited to go on a road trip with Papa Dad and Daddy, and although they begin the trip by observing people and traditions in each new place they visit, their attention begins to shift to sensitive family issues.
FIC
year: 2013
copies: 41
call number/section: FIC
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Coast To Coast With Alice

author: Hyatt, Patricia Rusch
The author recreates and narrates sixteen-year-old Hermine Jahns' experiences traveling on the first cross-country automobile trip with a woman driver in 1909.
FIC
year: 1995
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1030
subjects: jahns, hermine, ramsey, alice, automobile travel [X], sex role, diaries

The Vacation

author: Horvath, Polly
When his parents go to Africa to work as missionaries, twelve-year-old Henry's eccentric aunts, Pigg and Mag, take him on a cross-country car trip, allowing him to gain insight into his family and himself.
FIC
year: 2005
copies: 15
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1040

Hit The Road

author: Cooney, Caroline B
Brit has had her driver’s license only 11 days when her parents drop her off to stay at her grandmother’s house for two weeks while they go on vacation.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 16
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 790
subjects: grandmothers, kidnapping, friendship, automobile travel [X], old age

Northward To The Moon

author: Horvath, Polly
When her stepfather loses his job in Saskatchewan, Jane and the rest of the family set off on a car trip, ending up in Nevada after improbably being given a bag full of possibly stolen money.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 22
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 750

All The Earth, Thrown To The Sky

author: Lansdale, Joe R.
When the devastation wrought by endless dust storms in 1930s Oklahoma makes orphans of Jack, his schoolmate Jane, and her brother Tony, they take the truck of a dead man and set out to find a new start.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 8
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 760

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