Side A - Road Trip
In the Space Left Behind
by Joan Ackermann
Fifteen-year-old Colm embarks on a cross-country journey with the father who abandoned him as a child.
Rules of the Road
by Joan Bauer
Sixteen-year-old Jenna gets a job driving the elderly owner of a chain of shoe stores from Chicago to Texas to confront the son who is trying to force her to retire, and along the way she hones her talents as a saleswoman and finds the strength to face her alcoholic father.
All the Way
by Andy Behrens
Seventeen-year-old Ian convinces his best friends to travel 900 miles with him so he can meet Danielle, an online friend.
Car Trouble
by Jeanne DuPrau
Seventeen-year-old computer nerd Duff Pringle leaves Richmond, Virginia, in a newly-acquired used car and begins an unexpectedly convoluted journey to San Jose, California, and the job that awaits him there.
An Abundance of Katherines
by John Green
Having been recently dumped for the nineteenth time by a girl named Katherine, recent high school graduate and former child prodigy Colin sets off on a road trip with his best friend to try to find some new direction in life while also trying to create a mathematical formula to explain his relationships.
Long Gone Daddy
by Helen Hemphill
Young Harlan Q. Stank gets a taste of life in the fast lane when he accompanies his preacher father on a road trip to Las Vegas to bury his grandfather and to fulfill the terms of the old man's will.
Sister Slam and the Poetic Motormouth Roadtrip
by Linda Oatman High
In this novel told in slam verse, best friends and aspiring poets Laura and Twig embark on a road trip from Pennsylvania to New York City to compete at slam poetry events.
Becoming Chloe
by Catherine Ryan Hyde
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.
How to Be Bad
by E. Lockhart, Sarah Mlynowski and Lauren Myracle
Three girls who couldn't be more different have one goal in mind: to get the heck out of Dodge. Well, Niceville, Florida, actually. Hearts will be broken, friendships will be tested, and a ridiculously hot stranger could change the course of everything. And if they don't kill each other first, Vicks, Mel and Jesse will not only have a road trip to remember, they'll have friends for life.
Guyaholic: A Story of Finding, Flirting, Forgetting–and the Boy who Changes Everything
by Carolyn Mackler
V Valentine–fresh from Vegan Virgin Valentine–is back and is taking a solo cross-country road trip to Texas.
The Car
by Gary Paulsen
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.
Rainbow Road
by Alex Sanchez
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.
Zigzag
by Ellen Wittlinger
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.
Zane’s Trace
by Allan Wolf
Believing he has killed his grandfather, Zane Guesswind heads for his mother's Ohio grave to kill himself, driving the 1969 Plymouth Barracuda his long-gone father left behind, and meeting along the way assorted characters who help him discover who he really is.
My Road Trip to the Pretty Girl Capital of the World
by Brian Yansky
In 1979 when his life in Mansfield, Iowa, seems to fall apart, seventeen-year-old Simon takes his father's car and sets out for Texas, looking for his birth parents and picking up a man claiming to be Elvis, two bums, and an abused young wife along the way.
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Side B - Travel
La Perdida
by Jessica Abel
A young woman journeys to Mexico City in search of her true identity, only to discover a self she can hardly recognize.
Forest of the Pygmies
by Isabel Allende
Eighteen-year-old Alexander Cold and his grandmother travel to Africa on an elephant-led safari, but discover a corrupt world of poaching and slavery.
Griffin & Sabine: An Extraordinary Correspondence
by Nick Bantock
It all started with a mysterious and seemingly innocent postcard, but from that point nothing was to remain the same in the life of Griffin Moss, a quiet, solitary artist living in London. Who is Sabine? How can she "see" what Griffin is painting when they have never met?
Lucky T
by Kate Brian
Carrie gets upset when her mother gives her lucky T-shirt to Help India because now she's only having bad luck, so she decides to travel halfway around the world to get her lucky shirt back.
I is Someone Else
by Patrick Cooper
While traveling throughout the Middle East in 1966 in search of his runaway older brother, fifteen-year-old Stephen tries to come to terms with a secret from his own past.
Remember Me to Harold Square
by Paula Danziger
When Frank spends the summer with Kendra and her family in their New York City apartment, a friendship develops as the two teenagers set off on a scavenger hunt exploring the city's museums, restaurants and other landmarks.
Mary Wolf
by Cynthia D. Grant
Sixteen-year-old Mary tries to keep her family together as they aimlessly travel the country after her father's business fails and he starts to change.
Takeoffs and Landings
by Margaret Haddix
An overweight, timid fifteen-year-old boy and his popular fourteen-year-old sister begin to overcome their guilt over their father's death and reconnect with each other and their emotionally-distant mother when they accompany her on a two-week speaking tour.
Walk Away Home
by Paul Many
To escape his problems at school and at home, Nick, who prefers walking to automobile travel, hikes to his aunt's cabin in hopes of spending the summer there.
I’ll Ask You Three Times, Are You OK?: Tales of Driving and Being Driven
by Naomi Shihab Nye
Foolhardy missions. Life-altering conversations. Gifts given and received. Loss. Getting lost. Wisdom delivered before dawn and deep into the night. Love and kissing (not necessarily in that order). Laughter. Rides on the edge. Roses. Ghosts.
Red Glass
by Laura Resau
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.
Carnet de Voyage
by Craig Thompson
Craig Thompson spent three months traveling through Barcelona, the Alps, and France, as well as Morocco, researching his next graphic novel, Habibi. Spontaneous sketches and a travelogue diary document his adventures and quiet moments, creating a raw and intimate portrait of countries, culture and the wandering artist.
The Kingdom by the Sea
by Robert Westall
During World War II twelve-year-old Harry and a stray dog travel through war-torn England in search of safety.
You Can Never Find a Rickshaw When it Monsoons: The World on One Cartoon a Day
by Mo Willems
A collection of single panel comics that the author/illustrator used to record his daily impressions of places he visited while on a year-long journey around the world following his college graduation.
Why I Let My Hair Grow Out
by Maryrose Wood
On a bike trip in Ireland trying to recover from a broken heart, sixteen-year-old Morgan is transformed, not only by the others on the tour, but by her visits to the past, where she is believed to be the legendary half-goddess Morganne, sent to help end a faery curse.
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