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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
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When Taylor Greer hits the road she has no real destination, only to get as far from Kentucky as possible. By the time she ends up in Arizona, she has inherited a three-year-old Cherokee girl from an Indian woman she met in a bar.
2) Going bovine
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 17
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Cameron Smith, a disaffected sixteen year-old who, after being diagnosed with Creutzfeld Jakob's (aka 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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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 16
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A comic novel of three young men who "borrow" an automobile for a hilarious journey in Memphis. Wild humor and frenetic action do not, however, obscure the development of moving and tender human relationships and moral insights into human conduct.
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Stink Moody volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
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Stink Moody, friends Webster and Sophie, and Mrs. Birdwistle visit tourist attractions in Virginia as they try to give away 101 guinea pigs rescued from a laboratory, although Stink is very reluctant to give away his favorite, Astro.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 10
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Desperate to reach her grieving mother, Mira joins a group of college students driving home after their flight is stranded, but the road conditions are not the only mortal danger they face.
Stuck at the Philadelphia airport by an incoming blizzard results, Mira hitches a ride to Pittsburgh with a group of college kids who were on her initial flight. As the trip begins she discovers that her fellow travelers aren't friends like she thought. They're...
6) Loop group
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"As Loop Group opens, we meet Maggie, whose three grown-up daughters have arrived at her Hollywood home and try and make her see sense about her life, which isn't easy, first of all because their own lives are a mess, and secondly because as far as Maggie is concerned her own life makes perfect sense. She is self-supporting, running a successful "loop group" dubbing movies, she has a lover (admittedly he is married, and her psychoanalyst, and very...
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Fly Guy volume 5
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.4 - AR Pts: 1
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When Buzz, his parents, and his pet fly go on a road trip and get lost, Fly Guy comes to the rescue to help them find their way home.
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"The Robinas have shared a wonderful life for more than sixty years. Now in their eighties, Ella suffers from cancer and John has Alzheimer's. Yearning for one last adventure, the self-proclaimed "down-on-their-luck geezers" kidnap themselves from the adult children and doctors who seem to run their lives and steal away from their home in suburban Detroit on a forbidden vacation of rediscovery. With Ella as his vigilant copilot, John steers their...
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Diary of a wimpy kid volume 9
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 3
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Greg Heffley and his family hit the streets for a wimpy kid-style road trip.
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Serge Storms novels volume 24
Pub. Date
[2021]
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"Devoted Floridaphile Serge Storms is a lover of history, so heś decided to investigate his own using one of those DNA services from late-night TV. Excited to construct a family tree, he and Coleman hit the road to meet his kin. Along the way, he plans to introduce Coleman to the Sunshine Stateś beautiful parks where he can brush up on his flora, fauna, and wildlife, and more importantly, collect the missing stamps for his park passport book. But...
11) First Love
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Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
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Axi Moore is a "good girl": she studies hard, stays out of the spotlight, and doesn't tell anyone that what she really wants is to run away from it all. The only person she can confide in is her best friend, Robinson--who she also happens to be madly in love. When Axi impulsively invites Robinson to come with her on an unplanned cross-country road trip, she breaks the rules for the first time in her life. But the adventure quickly turns from carefree...
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Pub. Date
2017.
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Anne McWilliams has lost everything. After her marriage fell apart, she turned to photography only to have her world turned upside down again when a hurricane destroyed her home and all of her beloved photos. In the aftermath of the storm, Anne realizes that her life has fallen out of focus. She's lost touch with what matters most. So she takes to the road on a cross-country trip to ask long-lost family, friends, and strangers a simple question: "What's...
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Elephant and Piggie books volume 18
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1 - AR Pts: 1
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Elephant Gerald and Piggie want to go for a drive, but as Gerald thinks of one thing after another that they will have to take along, they come to realize that they lack the most important thing of all.
15) Silver alert
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Pub. Date
2023.
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"The story of an elderly man who, rather than give up his independence, heads off on a joyride with a new young friend"--
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Whole nother story trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
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Ethan Cheeseman and his children, ages eight, twelve, and fourteen, hope to settle in a nice small town, at least long enough to complete work on a time machine, but spies and government agents have been pursuing them for two years and are about to catch up.
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"Ashley Davison, a graduate student in California, desperately wants to spend the holidays with her family in Seattle. Dashiell Sutherland, a former army intelligence officer, has a job interview in Seattle and must arrive by December 23. Though frantic to book a last-minute flight out of San Francisco, both are out of luck: Every flight is full, and there's only one rental car available. Ashley and Dash reluctantly decide to share the car, but neither...
19) No Man's Land
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Frank Corso mysteries volume 5
Pub. Date
[2005]
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When a desperate hostage situation forces him into a cross-country journey in the company of a pair of escaped convicts, Frank Corso finds himself trailed by a collection of law enforcement agencies and craven media personalities as he works to end an ensuing spree of killing and mayhem.
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Vanderbeekers volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
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In this new adventure in the New York Times bestselling series, the Vanderbeekers depart Harlem to celebrate their dad's birthday. But their surprise road trip turns rocky when the younger kids try to keep their family from ever facing change. Our beloved Harlem family is putting the VAN in Vanderbeekers as they hit the highway to give their dad the best birthday surprise EVER! Re-creating a road trip Papa never got the chance to take with his own...
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