Life is a highway…
Fifteen-year-old Ramie Redfeather
leaves Cheyenne with music in his pocket and his thumb in the air. He’s looking to find his father, a man he’s
never met. Ramie gets a ride with Chas
Sweeney, a seventeen-year-old driving a “borrowed” Cadillac Eldorado with
Maryland tags, who just happens to be passing through Cheyenne. Chas is running from the wreckage that is his
world, sixteen hundred miles away. In
Denver Ramie and Chas meet Mae B. LaRoux, an enchanting young singer from Baton
Rouge. LaRoux, who struggles with a
learning disability, is on a mission to become a professional musician. The three runaways band together and set out
on a fast-paced road trip to get to the Austin Music Festival, looking for
Redfeather along the way. They’re on the
road –but it ain’t Jack Kerouac’s road trip!
Linda Collison’s first novel, Star-Crossed, published by Alfred A. Knopf in 2006, was chosen by
the New York Public Library to be among the Books
for the Teen Age – 2007 and inspired the Patricia MacPherson Nautical Adventure Series. Her coming-of- age story With a Little Luck won the former Maui Writers Conference Grand
Prize in 1996. Born in Baltimore, Linda
moved to Wyoming when she was twenty-four and has been on the move ever
since. Follow her on her website www.lindacollison.com.
Fiction/ Coming-of-Age/Young Adult
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