The Bean Trees
Taylor Greer grew up poor in rural Kentucky. She escapes to the west but by the time she arrives in Tucson, Arizona, she has acquired a three-year-old Indian girl named Turtle.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 64
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 900
subjects: native american children, orphans, friendship, automobile travel [X], young women, kingsolver, barbara, indian children, women travelers, humorous fiction, bildungsromans [X]
Someone Else's Summer
"Anna's always idolized her older sister, Storm. So when Storm dies in a tragic car accident on the night of her high school graduation, Anna is completely lost.
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copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
Rusty Summer
A month before graduation, Rusty, Leonie, Beau, and Leonie's dog take a road trip to the wilds of Alaska to find Rusty's estranged father.
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year:
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
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Mariam Sharma Hits The Road
"Three Pakistani-American teenagers, on a trip through the land of pork ribs, mechanical bulls, and Confederate flags .
FIC
year: 2020
copies: 11
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
American Road Trip
Brothers Teodoro and Manny Avila take a road trip to address Manny's PTSD following his tour in Iraq, and to help T.
FIC
year: 2018
copies: 39
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 550
subjects: conduct of life, post-traumatic stress disorder, brothers, automobile travel [X], mexican americans, realistic fiction, bildungsromans [X]
Girls On The Verge
"Camille, seventeen, gives up her spot at a prestigious theater camp to drive from Texas to New Mexico to get an abortion, accompanied by her friends Annabelle and Bea"--OCLC.
FIC
year: 2019
copies: 18
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: abortion, best friends, friendship, actresses, automobile travel [X], actors and actresses, coming of age, texas, bildungsromans [X], road fiction
Road Tripped
Seventeen-year-old Steven "Stiggy" Gabel tries to cope with his father's suicide, his mother's depression, and his girlfriend's departure by taking off down the Great River Road from Minnesota to Louisiana.
FIC
year: 2019
copies: 14
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 610
subjects: automobile travel [X], interpersonal relations, missing persons, coming of age, runaways, mississippi river region, bildungsromans [X], bildungsromans, runaway teenagers, domestic fiction
Unpregnant
"Seventeen-year-old Veronica Clarke never thought she'd want to fail a test--that is, until she finds herself staring at a piece of plastic with two solid pink lines.
FIC
year: 2020
copies: 16
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: teenage pregnancy, friendship, automobile travel [X], road fiction, abortion, high schools, schools, school stories, teenage girls, teenagers, girls, bildungsromans [X], electronic books
When I Was Summer
"Feeling like her family doesn't understand her or her love of music, sixteen-year-old Nora identifies three women who could be her birthmother and takes her band on a three-city tour to find them, a trip that allows her to instead find herself"--Provided by publisher.
FIC
year: 2019
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: musicians, birthmothers, adoption, automobile travel [X], interpersonal relations, coming of age, california, bildungsromans [X]
Things That Grow
"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 her favorite gardens"--OCLC.
FIC
year:
copies: 20
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: grandmothers, automobile travel [X], gardens, coming of age, road fiction, bildungsromans [X]
When You Get The Chance
"As kids, Mark and his cousin Talia spent summers at the family cottage in Ontario, but a fight between their parents put an end to it.
FIC
year: 2020
copies: 4
call number/section: FIC
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The Geography Of Lost Things
"Ali and her ex-boyfriend, Nico, both eighteen, rehash their ill-fated romance during a road trip to sell the 1968 Firebird convertible she just inherited from her estranged father"--OCLC.
FIC
year: 2019
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: fathers and daughters, automobile travel [X], dating (social customs), coming of age, bildungsromans [X], road fiction
Every Time You Hear That Song
"Seventeen-year-old aspiring journalist Darren Purchase has been a lifelong fan of country music legend Decklee Cassel, who's as famous for her classic hits as she is for her partnership with songwriter Mickenlee Hooper.
FIC
year: 2024
copies: 4
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 770
subjects: country musicians, time capsules, automobile travel [X], sexual minorities, lgbtqia fiction, coming of age, love, romance fiction, multiple point of view fiction, music fiction, queer fiction, bildungsromans [X], romance fiction