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Author
Series
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children, an imprint of Disney Book Group
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
"Elephant Gerald and Piggie want to go for a drive, but as Gerald thinks of one thing after another that they will have to take along, they come to realize that they lack the most important thing of all. Presented in Spanish."--
Author
Series
Fat Angie ; 2
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Sophomore year has just begun, and Angie is miserable. Her girlfriend, KC, has moved away; her only friend, Jake, is keeping his distance; and the resident bully has ramped up a vicious and targeted campaign to humiliate her. An over-the-top statue dedication planned for her sister, who died in Iraq, is almost too much to bear, and it doesn't help that her mother has placed a symbolic empty urn on their mantel. At the ceremony, a soldier hands Angie...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Taking a road trip to San Jose along Route 66 while stopping in Chicago, St. Louis, and other iconic cities, the Thea Sisters are dismayed to learn that an unknown saboteur has wiped a special video game project off of a programmer friend's computer.
144) Monkey on the run
Author
Publisher
Gecko Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Papa Monkey and Little Monkey are on their way. But the street is very busy and they are going so slowly! Little Monkey loses patience and jumps onto the fire engine. Up the ladder from there and he joins a TV crew! Then the garbage truck, an aquarium bus, a food cart for rabbits packed with carroty treats, Arctic animals traveling by snow globe, a jewel thief's getaway car ... There is so much going on in the street, it's become a playground! Each...
145) Walk two moons
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
After her mother leaves home suddenly, thirteen-year-old Sal and her grandparents take a car trip retracing her mother's route. Along the way, Sal recounts the story of her friend Phoebe, whose mother also left.
Author
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
Español
Description
Stink y sus amigos persiguen y rescatan a tres cobayas que se han escapado de la tienda de mascotas. Pero ése es apenas el comienzo de la aventura: los tres animalitos forman parte de una gran familia de 101 que necesitan hogar urgentemente. Así que los amigos lanzan una brigada de adopciones sobre ruedas por el estado de Virginia para ayudar a resolver el problema.
Stink Moody, his friends Webster and Sophie, and Mrs. Birdwistle visit tourist...
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"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." --
When Ali Collins's estranged father passes away and leaves her his only prized possession-- a 1968 Firebird convertible-- it reminds her too much of all her father's unfulfilled promises. A buyer three hundred miles up the Pacific coast is offering enough money for...
148) The history of us
Author
Publisher
Harmony Ink
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Eighteen-year-old Bradley Collins came out a year ago and hasn't looked back since. Who cares if he doesn't know any other gay people? Bradley has friends and basketball -- that's all he needs. Even if that means always sitting on the sidelines when the guys go out looking for girls. When cute film-boy TJ tries to flirt with Bradley while his friends are doing their thing, he freaks. Yeah, he's gay, but he's never had the opportunity to go out with...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Chloe Pierce's mom forbids her to apply for a spot at the dance conservatory of her dreams, she devises a secret plan to drive two hundred miles to the nearest audition. But Chloe hits her first speed bump when her annoying neighbor Eli insists upon hitching a ride, threatening to tell Chloe's mom if she leaves him and his smelly dog, Geezer, behind. So now Chloe's chasing her ballet dreams down the east coast--two unwanted (but kinda cute)...
151) West of the sea
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2023.
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...
Author
Series
Publisher
Molino Lectorum
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Español
Description
The Heffley family road trip starts off full of promise, then quickly takes several wrong turns--with everything from a fender bender to crazed seagulls--but even the worst road trip can turn into an adventure, and this is one the Heffleys will not soon forget.
Dicen que viajar por carretera en familia es algo muy divertido ... a no ser que se trate de los Heffley. Al principio el trayecto promete, pero no tardan en aparecer unos cuantos problemas...
155) The gravity of lies
Author
Publisher
Sword and Silk Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"What if your whole life was based on lies. In the city of dreams. Trying to make it in Hollywood isn't all it's cracked up to be for sixteen-year-old Skye Perry. The acting role's she books barely keep her and her mother from starving. And she can never be sure where they'll be sleeping for the night. Skye knows that finding her father is the saving grace that will rescue her from abject poverty and her mother's dysfunction. There's just one problem:...
156) When I was summer
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Sixteen-year-old Nora Wakelin has always felt like an outsider in her own family. Her parents and older sister love her, but they don't understand anything about her: not her passion for music, not her all-encompassing crush on her bandmate Daniel (who is very much unavailable), not her recklessness and impulsiveness. Nora has always imagined that her biological mother might somehow provide the answer as to why she feels like such an outsider. ...
157) Clean getaway
Author
Language
English
Description
"For the life of him, William "Scoob" Lamar can't seem to stay out of trouble--and now the run-ins at school have led to lockdown at home. So when G'ma, Scoob's favorite person on Earth, asks him to go on an impromptu road trip, he's in the RV faster than he can say FREEDOM. With G'ma's old maps and a strange pamphlet called the 'Travelers' Green Book' at their side, the pair takes off on a journey down G'ma's memory lane. But adventure quickly turns...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"In this book, you will meet Ruth, Barbara, Mollie, and Grace, the four explorers who take to the road in Ruth's bright red car, affectionately called Mr. A. Bubble. They are heading for Newport, Rhode Island, a resort town famous for mansions and millionaires"--Amazon.com.
160) Wayward son
Author
Series
Simon Snow ; 2
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
"The story is supposed to be over. Simon Snow did everything he was supposed to do. He beat the villain. He won the war. He even fell in love. Now comes the good part, right? Now comes the happily ever after . . . So why can't Simon Snow get off the couch? What he needs, according to his best friend, is a change of scenery. He just needs to see himself in a new light . . . That's how Simon and Penny and Baz end up in a vintage convertible, tearing...