Ginny has returned home from her travels in Thirteen Little Blue Envelopes. She and Keith are kind of something, but not official. (Can you really see Keith doing much officially?) Ginny has college apps to work on, and she swears she is going to finally get her personal statement written. Seriously. Someday. It will get [...]

Tags: art, friendship, humor, identity, interpersonal relations, road trip, secrets, travel
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Arranged marriages are history, right? The kind of thing that only happens in movies. Or maybe still in India. But not in America. And not to Jasbir. Jasbir, known as Jazz by her friends, is shocked and upset when her parents tell her that they will be setting her up with a husband. After all, [...]

Tags: dating, family life, race, road trip, secrets, social classes
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When Joy’s family relocates from Claremont, CA to Haven, UT, she is forced to leave everything behind: her friends, her future plans, her sense of self. Joy discovers a new town in which religion becomes culture, and most guys aren’t interested in dating because they have to leave on missions after high school. Many of [...]

Tags: emotional problems, friendship, identity, religion, road trip, romance
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Amy Curry thinks her life sucks. Her mom decides to move from California to Connecticut to start anew–just in time for Amy’s senior year. Her dad recently died in a car accident. So Amy embarks on a road trip to escape from it all, driving cross-country from the home she’s always known toward her new [...]

Tags: death, family problems, grief, guilt, interpersonal relations, road trip, romance
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Owen, Frank, Audrey, and Jin-Ae have one thing in common: they all want to die. When they meet online after each attempts suicide and fails, the four teens make a deadly pact: they will escape together on a summer road trip to visit the sites of celebrity suicides…and at their final destination, they will all [...]

Tags: depression, drugs, emotional problems, family problems, grief, road trip, self-esteem, sex, suicide
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