It’s summertime, and summer vacation usually means traveling. Road trips, trips to relatives, visiting family and friends and places. This summer travel will probably involve long airline delays and canceled flights (though it seems everyone I know is spending the summer in Europe…). My preferred way to travel is the road trip; it’s just a lot more laid-back than flying, and event though you can’t go quite as far, you can actually see the country as you go. So, if you’re one of the people who are playing it safe and not traveling this summer, here are some great middle-grade road trip books to help you feel like you are!
The Great Peach Experiment 1: When Life Gives You Lemons, Make Peach Pie
by Erin Soderberg Downing
Pixel+Ink
2021 Middle Grade Fiction Nominee
The Fabulous Zed Watson!
by Basil Sylvester and Kevin Sylvester
HarperCollins
2021 Middle Grade Fiction Nominee
Clean Getaway
by Nic Stone
Crown Books for Young Readers
2020 Middle Grade Fiction Nominee
The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise
by Dan Gemeinhart
Henry Holt & Co.
2019 Middle Grade Fiction Finalist
The Adventures of a Girl Called Bicycle
by Christina Uss
Margaret Ferguson Books
2018 Middle Grade Fiction Nominee
Louisiana’s Way Home
by Kate DiCamillo
Candlewick Press
2018 Middle Grade Fiction Nominee
See You in the Cosmos
by Jack Cheng
Dial Books
2017 Middle Grade Fiction Nominee
Far from Fair
by Elana K. Arnold
HMH Books for Young Readers
2016 Middle Grade Fiction Nominee
Survival Strategies of the Almost Brave
by Jennifer White
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
2015 Middle Grade Fiction Nominee
Sisters
by Raina Telgemeier
GRAPHIX
2014 Elementary/Middle Grade Graphic Novels Nominee
Savvy
by Ingrid Law
Dial Books
2008 Elementary/Middle Grade Speculative Fiction Finalist