Calvert Library's Book Bites for Teens

Hit the Road by Caroline B. Cooney

Episode Summary

In today’s story, a teenager faced with a boring, carless summer gets dragged into her grandmother’s plot to “kidnap” a friend from a nursing home and join her classmates at their college reunion.

Episode Notes

Enjoy our presentation of Hit the Road written by Caroline B. Cooney and published by Random House. 

Hit the Road won YALSA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults in 2009, in the Journey and Destination Category. 

Hit the Road is recommended for ages 12 and up for lying, illegal driving, stealing, and kidnapping. Please see NoveList for more information and reviews: https://bit.ly/HitTheRoadReviews 

This title is available as an ebook on Libby by Overdrive: https://bit.ly/HitTheRoadLibbyEbook 

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Music: Sad Clown (excerpt) by Orquesta Arrecife. Licensed under CC BY-SA 1.0 http://www.opsound.org/artist/orquestaarrecife/