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YA Road Trips
Updated 2/14/22
Satisfy your wanderlust from the comfort of your couch with these road-tripping YA reads.
Visit our booklist in the catalog to find the books in the library:
highland.chilipac.com/booklist/R8pkZ
Download a PDF copy of this booklist here.
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Mariam Sharma Hits The Road by Sheba Karim
Three Pakistani-American teenagers, on a trip through the land of pork ribs, mechanical bulls, and Confederate flags. It’s going to be quite an adventure.
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The Looking Glass by Janet McNally
A copy of Grimms’ Fairy Tales sends Sylvie, a sixteen-year-old ballerina-in-training, in search of her runaway older sister amid strange happenings.
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The Voice In My Head by Dana L. Davis
When a mysterious voice claiming to be God instructs her to bring her terminally ill twin to a remote location in the Arizona desert, Indigo organizes a trip with her dysfunctional family that reveals shocking truths.
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I Wanna Be Where You Are by Kristina Forest
A debut young adult rom-com about an African American ballerina who finds love on the road to an audition.
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Four Three Two One by Courtney Stevens
A girl reunites with the three other survivors of a bus bombing that killed nineteen people. Together they face the secrets, struggles, and emotional warfare that each has been enduring.
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Kissing In America by Margo Rabb
When she falls for a boy who unexpectedly moves to California, Eva and her best friend, Annie, set off on a road trip to the West Coast, confronting the complex truth about love along the way.
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Unpregnant by Jenni Hendriks and Ted Caplan
A 17-year-old girl from a conservative community teams up with her wild former friend to get an out-of-state abortion, encountering challenges, kind strangers and reckonings with the past.
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Stranger Than Fiction by Chris Colfer
Three Pakistani-American teenagers, on a trip through the land of pork ribs, mechanical bulls, and Confederate flags. It’s going to be quite an adventure.
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Field Notes on Love by Jennifer E. Smith
A meet-cute romance about, two teens who are thrown together on a cross-country train trip that will teach them about love, each other, and the futures they can build for themselves.
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Love & Luck by Jenna Evans Welch
In order to fix their shattered sibling relationship–and Addie’s broken heart–Addie and Ian take a road trip across Ireland filled with unexpected detours and a stop at a major musical festival.
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Mosquitoland by David Arnold
When she learns that her mother is sick in Ohio, Mim confronts her demons on a thousand-mile odyssey from Mississippi that redefines her notions of love, loyalty, and sanity.
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Homecoming by Cynthia Voigt
Abandoned by their mother, the four Tillerman children have to find their way, somehow, to Great-aunt Cilla’s house in Bridgeport, which may be their only hope of staying together.
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An Abundance of Katherines by John Green
Love, friendship, and a dead Austro-Hungarian archduke add up to surprising and heart-changing conclusions in this ingeniously layered comic novel about reinventing oneself.
Summaries provided by the library’s catalog and the publishers.