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English
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Two heartwarming tales about the power of a good story to open our eyes to life's possibilities. Anne McWilliams has lost everything. After her marriage falls apart and a hurricane destroys her home, she realizes that her life has fallen out of focus. So she takes to the road to ask long-lost friends and strangers a simple question, "What's your best story?" Can the funny, tragic, inspirational tales she hears on her journey help Anne see what she's...
2) One plus one
Author
Language
English
Description
A single mom trying to raise a bullied stepson and a mathlete daughter finds an unexpected rescue in the form of an obnoxious tech millionaire named Geeky Ed.
"One single mom. One chaotic family. One quirky stranger. One irresistible love story from the New York Times bestselling author of Me Before You. American audiences have fallen in love with Jojo Moyes. Ever since she debuted Stateside she has captivated readers and reviewers alike, and hit...
3) Hit & run
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013, c2012
Language
English
Description
"A nice guy with a questionable past, Charlie Bronson, risks everything when he busts out of a witness protection program to drive his girlfriend to Los Angeles for the job opportunity of a lifetime. Their road trip grows awkwardly complicated, however, when they're chased by an inept fed and Charlie's ex-pal, a vengeance-crazed criminal he helped put behind bars"--Container.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"You can check out of Room 9, but you can never leave. The Haunting of Hill House meets Nina LaCour in this paranormal mystery YA about the ghosts we carry with us. Something is building, simmering just out of reach. The room is watching. But Mira and Layla don't know this yet. When the two best friends are stranded on their spring break college tour road trip, they find themselves at the Wildwood Motel, located in the middle of nowhere, Indiana....
Author
Series
Pig Pig books volume 6
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Pig Pig is concerned about travelling across the country with his aunt and uncle, but is even more worried when he returns.
Author
Series
Dear Mrs. LaRue volume 3
Publisher
Blue Sky Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Asher Hunting wants revenge. Specifically, he wants revenge on the drunk driver who killed his mom and got off on a technicality. No one seems to think this is healthy, though, which is how he ends up in a bereavement group (well, bereavement groups. He goes to several.) It’s there he makes some unexpected friends: There’s Sloane, who lost her dad to cancer; Will, who lost his little brother to a different kind of cancer; and eighty-year-old Henry,...
10) Dog
Publisher
SDS
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A former Army Ranger with PTSD sets off on a road trip down the Pacific Coast with a military working dog that he is bringing to a fellow soldier's funeral.
Briggs and his companion Lulu, a Belgian Malinois, haul ass down the Pacific Coast in time to catch their best friend's and handler's funeral. One of them has a week to live; the other lives like every day is his last.
Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Spirited, restless Gracie Lockwood, twelve, of Cliffden, Maine, living in a world where sasquatches, dragons, giants, and mermaids are common, keeps a diary of her family's journey in a used Winnebago as they seek The Extraordinary World in hopes of keeping her little brother, Sam, safe against all odds.
13) West of the sea
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"When her mom disappears from their small Texas town, paleontology-loving Haven is determined to find her. But as she uncovers truths about her mom's identity, Haven also uncovers a monstrous family secret. Her mom can take the shape of a human and, in the right environment, also turn into an amphibious creature known as a kitskara. And now that she's growing up, Haven is discovering she has this ability, too. This newfound identity is her only clue...
14) Red glass
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Sophie has been frail and delicate since her premature birth, but discovers her true strength during a journey through Mexico, where the six-year-old orphan her family hopes to adopt was born, and to Guatemala, where her would-be boyfriend hopes to find his mother and plans to remain.
Author
Publisher
Walden Pond Press
Pub. Date
c2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-olds Haley and Dodger, winners of a fellowship, set out to investigate a series of possible alien abductions on tortuous family road trips that converge in a town that does not seem to exist.
Author
Publisher
Santa Monica Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Presents a guide to the architecture, natural wonders, museums, vintage hotels and motels, attractions, and tourist traps found on Route 66.
"Route 66 Adventure Handbook is your personal guide to the vanishing American roadside, with all of its exuberance, splendor, and absurdity. For this updated and expanded sixth edition, Drew Knowles has included it all: magnificent architecture, natural wonders, Art Deco masterpieces, vintage motels and cafes,...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Traces the author's 2011 road trip from the southernmost to the northernmost points of the United States to experience firsthand the country's diversity and political tensions in the face of a historic economic recession.
Author
Language
English
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Description
Inspired by true events, this part adventure, part historical saga and part coming-of-age love story follows Woodrow Wilson Nickel as he recalls his journey in 1938 to deliver Southern California’s first giraffes to the San Diego Zoo.
"Few true friends have I known and two were giraffes...' Woodrow Wilson Nickel, age 105, feels his life ebbing away. But when he learns giraffes are going extinct, he finds himself recalling the unforgettable experience...
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