Journeys & Destinations

 

Rules of the Road (YA FIC Bau)
Sixteen-year-old Jenna gets a job driving the elderly owner of a chain of successful shoe stores from Chicago to Texas to confront the son who is trying to force her to retire, and along the way Jenna hones her talents as a saleswoman and finds the strength to face her alcoholic father.

 

Shift by Jennifer Bradbury (YA FIC Bra)
When best friends Chris and Win go on a cross country bicycle trek the summer after graduating and only one returns, the FBI wants to know what happened.

 

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares (YA FIC Bra)
Four best girlfriends spend the biggest summer of their lives enchanted by a magical pair of pants.

 

All the Way by Andy Behrens (YA FIC Beh)
Hoping to have sex for the first time with a girl he has met on the Internet, seventeen-year-old Ian drives with his two best friends from Illinois to South Carolina.

 

Carpe Diem by Autumn Cornwell (YA FIC Cor)
Sixteen-year-old Vassar Spore's detailed plans for the next twenty years of her life are derailed when her bohemian grandmother insists that she join her in Southeast Asia for the summer, but as she writes a novel about her experiences, Vassar discovers new possibilities.

 

Whirligig by Paul Fleischman (YA FIC Fle)
While traveling to each corner of the country to build a whirligig in memory of the girl whose death he causes, sixteen-year-old Brian finds forgiveness and atonement.

 

Paper Towns by John Green (YA FIC Gre)
One month before graduating from his Central Florida high school, Quentin "Q" Jacobsen basks in the predictable boringness of his life until the beautiful and exciting Margo Roth Spiegelman, Q's neighbor and classmate, takes him on a midnight adventure and then mysteriously disappears.

 

Becoming Chloe by Catherine Ryan Hyde (YA FIC Hyd)
A gay teenage boy and a fragile teenage girl meet while living on the streets of New York City and eventually decide to take a road trip across America to discover whether or not the world is a beautiful place.

 

13 Little Blue Envelopes by Maureen Johnson (YA FIC Joh)
When seventeen-year-old Ginny receives a packet of mysterious envelopes from her favorite aunt, she leaves New Jersey to criss-cross Europe on a sort of scavenger hunt that transforms her life.

 

Born to Rock by Gordon Korman (YA FIC Kor)
When Leo, president of the Young Republicans Club, gets his scholarship to Harvard taken away, he turns to his real father, a lead singer in a punk rock band, in hopes that dad will pay for his tuition, but Leo's summer job as the band's roadie teaches him a lot about his dad, his friends, and himself.

 

Are We There Yet? by David Levithan (YA FIC Lev)
Tricked by their parents into taking a trip to Italy together, two brothers--one in high school and the other recently graduated from college--reflect on the directions of their own lives and on the distance that has grown between them.

 

Strange Relations by Sonia Levitin (YA FIC Lev)
Fifteen-year-old Marne is excited to be able to spend her summer vacation in Hawaii, not realizing the change in her lifestyle it would bring staying with her aunt, seven cousins, and uncle who is a Chasidic rabbi.

 

The Car by Gary Paulsen (YA FIC Pau)
A teenager left on his own travels west in a kit car he built himself, and along the way picks up two Vietnam veterans, who take him on an eye-opening journey.

 

Monsoon Summer by Mitali Perkins (YA FIC Per)
Secretly in love with her best friend and business partner Steve, fifteen-year-old Jazz must spend the summer away from him when her family goes to India during that country's rainy season to help set up a clinic.

 

Rainbow Road by Alex Sanchez (YA FIC San)
While driving across the United States during the summer after high school graduation, three young gay men encounter various bisexual and homosexual people and make some decisions about their own relationships and lives.

 

Finding Lubchenko by Michael Simmons (YA FIC Sim)
When his father is framed for murder and bioterrorism, high-school junior Evan, using clues from a stolen laptop, travels from Seattle to Paris with two friends to find the real culprit.

 

Zig Zag by Ellen Wittlinger (YA FIC Wit)
A high-school junior makes a trip with her aunt and two cousins, discovering places she did not know existed and strengths she did not know she had.

 

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This list created for the South Kingstown Public Library by Brandi Kenyon.
Updated 05/09