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Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers, August 2003
Hardcover, 272 pages
ISBN-10: 0689849966
ISBN-13: 9780689849961
Grades: 7 and up
Awards and Nominations
- ALA Best Books For Young Adults
- Gateway Readers Award Nominee (MO)
- Keystone to Reading YA Bk Awrd (PA)
- South Carolina Book Award Nominee
- Texas Tayshas High School Reading List
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Description
A summer disappointment turns into a cross-country discovery.
Robin can't believe it when her boyfriend, Chris, tells her that his parents have enrolled him in a summer program in Rome. It's their last summer together before he goes away to college, and now they won't even have that time together. It feels like the worst thing that's ever happened to her.
Since Chris is leaving, Robin agrees to join her aunt and cousins on a cross-country road trip, in spite of her reservations -- she and her younger cousins have never really gotten along, and since their father's death they've become even more problematic than before.
Soon the four of them are zigzagging through the West on an eye-opening journey. They explore parts of the country Robin never dreamed existed -- and she discovers inner resources she never imagined she had.
Robin can't believe it when her boyfriend, Chris, tells her that his parents have enrolled him in a summer program in Rome. It's their last summer together before he goes away to college, and now they won't even have that time together. It feels like the worst thing that's ever happened to her.
Since Chris is leaving, Robin agrees to join her aunt and cousins on a cross-country road trip, in spite of her reservations -- she and her younger cousins have never really gotten along, and since their father's death they've become even more problematic than before.
Soon the four of them are zigzagging through the West on an eye-opening journey. They explore parts of the country Robin never dreamed existed -- and she discovers inner resources she never imagined she had.
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"This book is proof a road trip can change your life."
-- Seventeen magazine
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"A moving, realistic exploration of first love, class issues, girls' self-confidence, and the process of healing."
-- Booklist
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