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With graduation a month away, I'm hitting the road with my best friends Beau, Leonie, and Leonie's awesome rescue dog, The Bomb. We've all got something on our minds. Beau is schooling our school for ignoring brutal bullying. Beautiful, crazy Leonie is striving to become a model. And I'm drilling to join a local roller derby team—The Rat City Roller Girls—where my bulk is actually a benefit! But first, somewhere between finals and graduation, I need some answers. I need to see my dad. Face to face.
Unless he's moved without telling me, my dad is out in the wilds of Alaska—somewhere remote, beautiful, and amazing, where there will be wild animals, and hot guys, and adventures and lies and heartbreaks. It's further from home than any of us have ever been. Sometimes that's how far you need to go to figure out exactly where you want to be...
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- ISBN: 9781617732584
- File size: 666 KB
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- ISBN: 9781617732584
- File size: 666 KB
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- English
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Reviews
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August 1, 2015
Gr 9 Up-In this sequel to Beau, Lee, The Bomb & Me (Kensington, 2014), Rylee (Rusty) and her friends, Beau and Leonie, embark on another soul-searching journey. On the fringe of their adult lives, Rylee has moved out of her mother's ultra-religious household and into an apartment with Beau. On the flip side, Leonie moved in with Rylee's mother. About to graduate from their Seattle high school, Rylee tries to contact her father, whom she hasn't heard from in years. When her father fails to respond, the trio take off to Alaska in search of him. On the way, they hit a deer in British Columbia, damaging Rylee's van. The road trip turns into a plane trip with a handsome Alaskan bush pilot and an eventful meeting with Rylee's estranged father. Moving slowly, with 70 pages of catch-up before the action, readers may become bored with Rylee's pop culture-heavy narrative. Like in the previous volume, which focused on gay rights and antibullying, this title also expounds on several social issues, cloying the story line to a halt at times with lengthy flashbacks and musings. Though containing subject matter timely and relevant in the lives of today's young adults, the book falls just short of immersing readers into a narrative that has great potential. VERDICT Purchase only where fans are anxious to continue Rylee's story.-Mindy Whipple, West Jordan Library, UT
Copyright 2015 School Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
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