by Paul Acampora '85 (Dial Books)
This debut novel for young adults traces the
trips, travails and transformation of 16-year-old Dulcie Morrigan Jones, whose mom moves the two of them
from Connecticut to California following the accidental death of Dulcie's father. Unwilling to
leave her old life behind, Dulcie steals her father's aging pick-up truck and drives across
America to her former home.
"Offbeat and at times wonderfully funny," praises the School
Library Journal in one of many positive reviews earned by the novel, which will be a Scholastic
Book Club selection this year.
(February 2007)
