Road trip novels / Teen road trips novels?

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Hi!

Could you help me with some suggestions (again!) ? :tongue

I would really need to sink my teeth into a good road trip novel, ideally with teenage characters. It could be non-fiction too. I know about the most obvious road novel, On The Road.

This is to inspire some ideas that have been simmering in my mind.
 

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The teenage one that comes to my mind is The Rule of the Bone, by Russell Banks. I assume you mean the journey to be metaphorical at the same time, a coming-of-age journey as well. But I have to warn you, it's gritty.
 
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Not road trips, but travelling novels, come to mind.

Wanderlove is a travelling/backpacking novel, and Goodreads thinks Just One Day is also a travelling YA novel but I haven't read it to be sure.
 
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Rules of the Road - Joan Bauer
 
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You might want to check out The Drifters by James Michener. It's about a group of college-age women and men on a road trip through Spain and Morocco, circa 1970. I have not yet read it, but it's the next novel on my "to read" list.
 

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Crash Into Me by Albert Borris is a YA road-trip novel. It's pretty dark, as it centers around four suicidal teenagers.
 
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