I love a YA book featuring a road trip. Though these books have historically been white and straight–for reasons that have to do with the types of privilege cishet white teens have being on the open read in America–over the last several years, more YA books have put teens of color in the driver or passenger seats. Some of those books include Get Real, Chloe Torres by Crystal Maldonado and Don’t Fail Me Now by Una LaMarche.
YA road trip books have also been very American based. There’s something to that, of course, as America is a car-based country and there’s plenty of symbolism in a teen being behind the wheel on the open road. Certainly, these books haven’t only been set in America–take, for instance
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