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The Heffley family road trip starts off full of promise, then quickly takes several wrong turns--with everything from a fender bender to crazed seagulls--but even the worst road trip can turn into an adventure, and this is one the Heffleys will not soon forget.
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YA/JUV Historical Fiction List
Children's and Middle Grade Novels in Spanish and English/Novelas juveniles en español e inglés
Children's and Middle Grade Novels in Spanish and English/Novelas juveniles en español e inglés
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Celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Newbery and Coretta Scott King Honoree about an unforgettable family on a road-trip during one of the most important times in the civil rights movement. When the Watson family--ten-year-old Kenny, Momma, Dad, little sister Joetta, and brother Byron--sets out on a trip south to visit Grandma in Birmingham, Alabama, they don't realize that they're heading toward one of the darkest moments in America's history. The...
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In this fourth book of Timmy Failure's memoirs, Timmy is forced to take his investigation into stolen charity funds on the road when his mother forces him to help her boyfriend move to Chicago. They are on the road in a cross-country trip that includes Timmy's mom, Total the polar bear, Doorman Dave, and criminal mastermind Molly Moskins. It's a world gone mad, where good becomes bad, and Timmy Failure is a condemned man.
11) Song for a whale
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Twelve-year-old Iris and her grandmother, both deaf, drive from Texas to Alaska armed with Iris's plan to help Blue-55, a whale unable to communicate with other whales.
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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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Diverse Books - African/Black Experience in the World
Diverse Books - Latino/Latinx, Hispanic, and Latin American Children
Diverse Books - Latino/Latinx, Hispanic, and Latin American Children
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A boy helps his father keep their very old car running as they make a trip to Havana for his newborn cousin's zero-year birthday. Includes author's note about cars in Cuba.
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Charlie's simple and predictable life gets complicated when his war-journalist father gets injured in Afghanistan. Now he must live with Gram and take frequent trips to the hospital, and then must travel cross-country when his father moves to Virginia for better treatment. Along the way, Gram tells Charlie that people heal faster when they are happy, and Charlie thinks that if he can spot all the birds he and his father want to spot, then maybe, somehow,...
18) Yellow Dog blues
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"Traveling across the Mississippi Delta, Bo Willie searches blues landmarks like Dockery Farms and Beale Street for his missing dog"--