automobile travel

Presents photos and information about historic Route 66, which stretched from Chicago to Los Angeles. Discusses landmarks, the road's discontinuation, and how to plan a road trip tracing the original route. Includes a glossary, index, and resources for further information.

Presents photos and information about the Pacific Coast Highway. Discusses the building of the road, the cities and sights it travels through, and California history. Includes a glossary, index, and resources for further information.

Presents photos and information about the Oregon Trail. Discusses important stops and landmarks, daily life for covered-wagon travelers, and planning a road trip along the trail. Includes a glossary, index, and resources for further information.

African American teen Michelle cares for her two siblings in urban Baltimore while their mother is in jail. Leah and her stepbrother Tim, both white, live in a middle-class suburb of Maryland. Michelle and Leah share the same father who abandoned them--Buck Devereaux. When the two learn Buck is dying, the whole group embarks on a road trip to California to see him one last time.

Mr. Carter is getting a newspaper award in New York City, so Kylie Jean and her family set out across the country on a driving vacation.

In the two years since the death of her father, Eva has read over a hundred romance novels, taking refuge in knowing the stories will end with a romantic consummation, avoiding the romance-not-guaranteed real life that has become so painful. That pain is eased by Will, a senior boy with whom Eva falls in love, but then Will's family moves from New York to California. Eva's best friend, Annie, suggests a road trip, on which the two girls have adventures that usher them into adulthood.

A month before graduation, Rusty, Leonie, Beau, and Leonie's dog take a road trip to the wilds of Alaska to find Rusty's estranged father.

"Francie and her pregnant mom are driving home from Grandma's in the heavy rain. When they're still far from home, they stop for a picnic. As the car windows fog up, Francie spells out her name, 'Daddy' and 'Mom,' and leaves one space free for her soon-to-be baby sister"--OCLC.

"Introduces the reader to wacky roadside attractions"--Provided by publisher.

Cameron Smith, a disaffected sixteen-year-old diagnosed with mad cow disease, sets off on a road trip with a death-obsessed, video-gaming dwarf he meets in the hospital in an attempt to find a cure.