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Re: On the Road (Again): Travel Books
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From: Lyn Miller-Lachmann <lynml_at_me.com>
Date: Fri, 05 Jul 2013 15:08:56 -0400
Two road trip books that I read and reviewed last year for The Pirate Tree explore journeys in which the main character travels with, or meets, someone from another culture and how that changes her or him. Neither book got a ton of attention when it first came out, but both are definitely worth a second look.
The first of these is Shana Burg's middle grade novel LAUGH WITH THE MOON (Delacorte), in which Clare accompanies her father, a doctor, on a humanitarian trip to Malawi following the sudden death of her mother. There, Clare befriends a Chichewa girl her age and learns about life and death in a place where life is even more precarious.
The second book is Brett Hartman's YA novel CADILLAC CHRONICLES (Cinco Puntos). Alex, a white teenager in upstate New York, is angry that his careerist single mother has offered to take in an elderly black man as part of an experiment in intergenerational living. When Lester turns out to be the only person who understands Alex, and his mother decides the arrangement is a mistake, Alex and Lester take off for the South in Lester's Cadillac in search of Alex's estranged father and Lester's estranged sister.
Lyn Miller-Lachmann Gringolandia (Curbstone Press/Northwestern University Press, 2009) Rogue (Nancy Paulsen Books/Penguin, 2013)
Received on Fri 05 Jul 2013 03:08:56 PM CDT
Date: Fri, 05 Jul 2013 15:08:56 -0400
Two road trip books that I read and reviewed last year for The Pirate Tree explore journeys in which the main character travels with, or meets, someone from another culture and how that changes her or him. Neither book got a ton of attention when it first came out, but both are definitely worth a second look.
The first of these is Shana Burg's middle grade novel LAUGH WITH THE MOON (Delacorte), in which Clare accompanies her father, a doctor, on a humanitarian trip to Malawi following the sudden death of her mother. There, Clare befriends a Chichewa girl her age and learns about life and death in a place where life is even more precarious.
The second book is Brett Hartman's YA novel CADILLAC CHRONICLES (Cinco Puntos). Alex, a white teenager in upstate New York, is angry that his careerist single mother has offered to take in an elderly black man as part of an experiment in intergenerational living. When Lester turns out to be the only person who understands Alex, and his mother decides the arrangement is a mistake, Alex and Lester take off for the South in Lester's Cadillac in search of Alex's estranged father and Lester's estranged sister.
Lyn Miller-Lachmann Gringolandia (Curbstone Press/Northwestern University Press, 2009) Rogue (Nancy Paulsen Books/Penguin, 2013)
Received on Fri 05 Jul 2013 03:08:56 PM CDT
