My Road Trip to the Pretty Girl Capital of the World
By (Author) Brian Yansky
Cricket Books, a division of Carus Publishing Co
Cricket Books, a division of Carus Publishing Co
2nd January 2004
United States
Young Adult
Non Fiction
Childrens / Teenage fiction: Family and home stories
FIC
Hardback
160
Width 139mm, Height 209mm
354g
Its 1979, and Simons life is unraveling before his very eyes. He doesnt get along with his father, his girlfriend has just dumped him, hes in trouble with the school authorities, and hes been arrested for drinking underage and smoking potnot to mention selling the stuff. And to top it off, hes adopted, and his parents act like its something shameful. He wrestles open his parents lockbox, finds the names and last known location of his birth parents, and decides to leave Mansfield, Iowa, and head to Texas in search of his origins. His encounters with an Elvis impersonator (who may just be the missing man himself) along with a young woman on the lam and two hapless drifters add up to a picaresque road-trip tale that is not only very funny but honest in the telling.