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The Beetle and Me: A Love Story by Young (FIC YOU)
Realistic
Surrounded by her busy extended family and their many cars, fifteen-year-old Daisy pursues her goal of single-handedly restoring the car of her dreams, the old purple Volkswagen Beetle from her childhood.
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Paper Towns by John Green (FIC GRE) Mystery
One month before graduating from his Central Florida high school, Quentin "Q" Jacobsen basks in the predictable boringness of his life until the beautiful and exciting Margo Roth Spiegelman, Q's neighbor and classmate, takes him on a midnight adventure and then mysteriously disappears.
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Crash Into Me by Albert Borris (FIC BOR) Realistic
Four teens have one thing in common: they all want to die. When they meet online after each one attempts suicide and fails, they escape together on a summer road trip. As they drive cross-country, bonding over their dark impulses, each must decide whether life is worth living--or if there's no turning back.
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Going Bovine by Libba Bray (FIC BRA) Adventure
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.
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Jerk, California by Jonathan Friesen (FIC FRI)
Realistic
Plagued by Tourette's syndrome and a stepfather who despises him, Sam meets an old man in his small Minnesota town who sends him on a road trip designed to help him discover the truth about his life.
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The Miles Between by Mary E. Pearson (FIC PEA)
Adventure
Seventeen-year-old Destiny keeps a painful childhood secret all to herself until she and three classmates from her exclusive boarding school take off on an unauthorized road trip in search of "one fair day."

Stolen Car by Patrick Jones (FIC JON) Adventure
Plagued with her mother's bad judgment in choosing boyfriends, fifteen-year-old Danielle is in denial about her boyfriend Reid, but when her best friend Ashley convinces Danielle to go on a road trip away from the mess of her life Danielle finds herself driving across Michigan in a stolen car.
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Rose By Any Other Name by M. McCarthy (FIC MCC)
Realistic
During a road trip with her mother from Melbourne to Fairy Point, Australia, to see her dying grandmother, nineteen-year-old Rose gains a new perspective on events of the previous year, when family problems, the end of a long-term friendship, and bad personal choices dramatically transformed her near-perfect life. of a long-term friendship, and bad personal choices dramatically transformed her near-perfect life.
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Play Me by Laura Ruby (FIC RUB) Realistic
Disappointed when he does not get the MTV production deal he wants, high school senior Eddy leaves his girlfriend and takes a road trip to find the mother who has left him and his younger stepbrother, who has taken a bit part in a television show.
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Rules of the Road by Joan Baur (FIC BAU) Realistic
Sixteen-year-old Jenna gets a job driving the elderly owner of a chain of successful shoe stores from Chicago to Texas to confront the son who is trying to force her to retire, and along the way Jenna hones her talents as a saleswoman and finds the strength to face her alcoholic father.
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Honey, Baby, Sweetheart by Caletti (FIC CAL)
Romance
In the summer of her junior year, sixteen-year-old Ruby McQueen and her mother, both nursing broken hearts, set out on a journey to reunite an elderly woman with her long-lost love and in the process learn many things about "the real ties that bind" people to one another.
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Hit the Road by Caroline Cooney (FIC COO)
Adventure
Sixteen-year-old Brittany acts as chauffeur for her grandmother and three other eighty-plus-year-old women going to what is supposedly their college reunion, on a long drive that involves lies, theft, and kidnappings.
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Jump the Cracks by Stacy DeKeyser (FIC DEK) Realistic
On the way to visit her father in New York City, fifteen-year-old Victoria finds an apparently abused child in the train’s bathroom and soon finds herself branded a kidnapper and on the run while trying to fulfill her promise to protect the boy at all costs.
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Car Trouble by Jeanne DuPrau (FIC DUP) Realistic
Early one August morning, 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.
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Aftershock by Kelly Easton (FIC EAS) Realistic
In shock and unable to speak after being in a car accident in Oregon which killed his parents, seventeen-year-old Adam journeys across the country to his home in Rhode Island.
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Born to Rock by Gordon Korman (FIC KOR)
Realistic
High school senior Leo Caraway, a conservative Republican, learns that his biological father is a punk rock legend.
Whirligig by Paul Fleischman (FIC FLE) Realistic
While traveling to each corner of the country to build a whirligig in memory of the girl whose death he causes, sixteen-year-old Brian finds forgiveness and atonement.
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The Real Question by Adrian Fogelin (FIC FOG)
Realistic
Fisher Brown, a sixteen-year-old overachiever, is on the verge of academic burnout when he impulsively decides to stop cramming for the SATs for one weekend and accompany his neighbor to an out of town job repairing a roof.
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An Abundance of Katherines by Green (FIC GRE)
Humor
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.
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Becoming Chloe by Catherine Hyde (FIC HYD)
Realistic
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.
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13 Little Blue Envelopes by Johnson (FIC JOH)
Adventure
When seventeen-year-old Ginny receives a packet of mysterious envelopes from her favorite aunt, she leaves New Jersey to criss-cross Europe on a sort of scavenger hunt that transforms her life.
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On the Road by Jack Kerouac (FIC KER)
Adventure
A fortieth-anniversary edition of the novel that defined the beat generation of the 1950’s, in which Sal Paradise tells about his travels throughout North America in search of belief and meaning.
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Are We There Yet? by David Levithan (FIC LEV)
Realistic
Tricked by their parents into taking a trip to Italy together, two brothers--one in high school and the other recently graduated from college--reflect on the directions of their own lives and on the distance that has grown between them.
How to Be Bad by E. Lockart (FIC LOC) Realistic
Told in alternating voices, Jesse, Vicks, and Mel, hoping to leave all their worries and woes behind, escape their small town by taking a road trip to Miami.
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Guyaholic by Carolyn Mackler (FIC MAC)
Realistic
Vivienne Valentine, known as V to her friends, has a history of hooking up with a new guy every few days, but her latest boyfriend, Sam, seems to be different from her past relationships and when her feelings start to scare her, V makes a stupid mistake that destroys their relationship and sends V on a cross-country journey of self discovery.
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Red Glass by Laura Resau (FIC RES) Realistic
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.
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Finding Lubchenko by M. Simmons (FIC SIM)
Adventure
Evan's father is framed for murder and bioterrorism, so high-school junior Evan, using clues from a stolen laptop, travels from Seattle to Paris with two friends to find the real culprit.
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Zigzag by Ellen Wittlinger (FIC WIT) Romance
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.
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Zane’s Trace by Allan Wolf (FIC WOL) Realistic
Believing he has killed his grandfather, Zane Guesswind heads for his mother’s Zanesville, 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 discover who he really is. .