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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
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.
8) Silver alert
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"A driving force in literature, the one and only Lee Smith returns with a road trip novel, a story full of hope and humor about not going away quietly—at any age. Aging Herb’s charmed life with his dear wife, Susan, in their Key West house is coming undone. Susan now needs constant care, and Herb is in denial about his own ailing health. The one bright spot is the arrival of an endlessly optimistic manicurist calling herself Renee....
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.
12) 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...
13) 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.
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