Joyride - Hardcover

Ehrlich Amy

3.82

309 ratings by Goodreads

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0763613460 ISBN 13: 9780763613464

Publisher: Walker Books Ltd, 2001

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From Montpelier, Vermont, across the country to Venice, California, Nina Lewis and her mother, Joyce, are always on the move. They own nothing that can't fit in the back of a van and they stay nowhere very long. But as Nina begins to yearn for a more settled life and lasting friendships, Joyce begins to move at a more and more frantic pace. Why? Will Nina ever get the stability she craves? Or will the truth behind Joyce's compulsion to keep moving cause both their lives to spiral out of control?

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"Amy Ehrilich is a witch with words, and while you think you are reading one novel, you are actually reading another. The climax is startling and heart-wrenching, giving a meaning to the entire book that lingers long after that last piercing scene is read." Robert Cormier

About the Author:

Amy Ehrlich is a children's book editor and the award-winning author of more than thirty books for children and young adults. She wrote this book after moving from New York City to Vermont. She says, "My son, who was in the sixth grade, had a hard time adjusting. One day he came home and told me about a new girl in his class who moved every year. It was just the girl and her mother. For some reason I couldn't stop thinking about her. Was she lonely? How did she make friends? Why did they keep moving? Then one day I sat down and began to write Joyride."

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