Bauer, Joan. Rules of the Road.
Sixteen-year-old Jenna gets a job driving the elderly owner of a chain of
successful shoe stores from Chicago to Texas to confront the son who is trying
to force her to retire, and along the way Jenna hones her talents as a saleswoman
and finds the strength to face her alcoholic father.
Creech, Sharon. Bloomability.
When her aunt and uncle take her from New Mexico to Lugano, Switzerland, to
attend an international school, thirteen-year-old Dinnie discovers an expanding
world and her place within it.
Giff, Patricia Reilly. Wild Girl.
When twelve-year-old Lidie leaves Brazil to join her father and brother on a
horse ranch in New York, she has a hard time adjusting to her changed circumstances,
as does a new horse that has come to the ranch.
Horvath, Polly. Northward to the Moon.
A sequel to My One Hundred Adventures finds Jane leaving her short-lived residence
in Canada and envisioning a series of exciting new adventures before confronting
the reality of her family's life on the road.
Horvath, Polly. The Vacation.
When his parents go to Africa to work as missionaries, twelve-year-old Henry's
eccentric aunts, Pigg and Mag, take him on a cross-country car trip, allowing
him to gain insight into his family and himself.
Ibbotson, Eva. Journey to the River Sea.
Sent with her governess to live with the dreadful Carter family in exotic
Brazil in 1910, Maia endures many hardships before fulfilling her dream of
exploring the Amazon River.
Koponen, Libby. Blow Out the Moon.
A fictionalized account of the author's childhood experiences moving from
the United States to London, England, and attending a boarding school.
Lieberg, Carolyn. West with Hopeless.
Bound for Reno and their divorced father for the summer, two half-sisters
leave from Iowa in an old Ford Escort and learn a great deal about the people
they encounter and even more about themselves.
Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds. Faith, Hope, and Ivy June.
During a student exchange program, seventh-graders Ivy June and Catherine share
their lives, homes, and communities, and find that although their lifestyles
are total opposites they have a lot in common.
Wallace-Brodeur, Ruth. Heron Cove.
Feeling somewhat abandoned by her mother, twelve-year-old Sage is sent to
spend the summer at the Maine home of her great-aunts, where she learns about
and begins to identify with her family's history.
Weeks, Sarah. So. Be. It.
After spending her life with her mentally challenged mother and agoraphobic neighbor,
twelve-year-old Heidi sets out from Reno, Nevada, to New York to find out who
she is.