automobile travel

Photographs and simple text describe the various types of cars including convertibles, sedans, sports cars, and compact cars.

After the death of her father, Amy, a high school student and Roger, a college freshman, set out on a carefully planned road trip from California to Connecticut, but wind up taking many detours, forcing Amy to face her worst fears and come to terms with her grief and guilt.

Without his mother's knowledge or approval, sixteen-year-old Alex takes a road trip with Lester, an elderly black man in the adopt-a-senior program, to find Alex's father in Fort Lauderdale.

Alice, Summer, and Tiernan were best friends who broke up at the same time as their favorite band, but four years later, just before they are preparing to go off to college, the girls reluctantly come back together, each with her own motives, for a road trip from Massachusetts to Austin, Texas, for the band's one-time-only reunion concert.

Taylor Greer grew up poor in rural Kentucky. She escapes to the west but by the time she arrives in Tucson, Arizona, she has acquired a three-year-old Indian girl named Turtle. Can she come to terms with motherhood and put down roots?.

When a tragic accident and sudden financial woes cause recent high school graduate Logan to question plans for his future, he agrees to make a road trip with his best friend and surfing buddy, Z-boy, transporting marijuana from southern California to Orlando, Florida.

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.

Sara, her Russian-American grandmother, her mother, and some neighbors try to drive to the beach on a very hot day.

Provides an overview of the history of travel on land, discusses the technologies involved, and explores possible innovations that could aid in travel by motor vehicles.