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264 pp.
| Simon |
August, 2003 |
TradeISBN 0-689-84996-6$$16.95
(2)
YA
When her summer plans fall through, seventeen-year-old Robin agrees to take a road trip with her two young cousins and recently widowed aunt. Wittlinger shifts readers' level of empathy for each character throughout this highly readable first-person narrative. Like many road trips, this one is a crucible--excruciating one moment, exhilarating the next, hard to walk away from unchanged.