Kissing in America

By Margo Rabb

Subjects: Voyages en automobile, Bibliotherapy, Automobile travel, fiction, Adolescents et mort, Death, Automobile travel, Livres et lecture, Friendship, fiction, Teenage girls, Books and reading, Attraction interpersonnelle, Pères, Amis, Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse, Love, Fiction, Children's fiction, Bibliothérapie, Interpersonal attraction, Love, fiction, Adolescentes, Mort, Teenagers and death, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Romance, Juvenile fiction, Fathers, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Family / Parents, Youth, fiction, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Social Themes / New Experience, Best friends

Description: In the two years since her father died, sixteen-year-old Eva has found comfort in reading romance novels -- 118 of them, to be exact -- to dull the pain of her loss that's still so present. Her romantic fantasies become a reality when she meets Will, who seems to truly understand Eva's grief. Unfortunately, after Eva falls head-over-heels for him, he picks up and moves to California without any warning. Not wanting to lose the only person who has been able to pull her out of sadness -- and, perhaps, her shot at real love -- Eva and her best friend, Annie, concoct a plan to travel to the west coast to see Will again. As they road trip across America, Eva and Annie confront the complex truth about love.