Find Yourself through Travel in Teen Fiction

Note: Now includes titles that feature travel anywhere not just in Europe. Some overlap with the On Vacation list, but not exactly.

High Dive by Tammar Stein

• Pub Date: 2008
• Middle and High school interest 
• Arden meets some girls from Texas on her way to Italy and joins their trip to Paris.

Are We There Yet by David Levithan

• Pub Date: 2005 
• High school interest
• See also: On Vacation 
• Two brothers who don't have much in common are stuck vacationing in Europe together.

Zigzag by Ellen Wittlinger

• Pub Date: 2003
• Middle and High school interest
• See also: Extended Family
• Robin spends her summer vacation on a road trip with her aunt and cousins.

The Wonder of Us by Kim Culbertson

• Pub Date: 2017
• High School Interest
• Genre: Romance 
• Diversity: Indian-American characters 
• See also: BFF Trouble 
• Two friends who have grown apart attempt to reconnect during a European trip.

The Porcupine of Truth by Bill Konigsberg

• 2016 Stonewall Award Winner
• High School Interest
• Diversity: LGBTQ, African-American main character
• See also: Atheism 

How to Avoid Extinction by Paul Acampora

• Pub Date: 2016
• Middle school Interest
• See also: Extended Family 
• Leo, his grandmother, and others take off on a spontaneous road trip from PA to UT. 

Amy and Roger's Epic Detour

• Pub Date: 2010
• High School Interest
• Genre: Romance

Kissing in America by Margo Rabb

• Pub Date: 2015
• High school interest
• Diversity: Jewish main character
• Two friends take off on a bus trip across the country to see a boy. 

The Last True Love Story by Brendan Kiely

• Pub Date: 2016
• High School Interest
• See also: Extended Family 
• Hendrix breaks his grandfather out of Assisted Living plans to drive him to New York from CA. 

North of Happy by Adi Alsaid

• Pub date: 2017
• High School Interest
• Diversity: Mexican teen
• See also: Food/Cooking, Grief/Loss, Coaches/Mentors
• A teen takes a sudden trip after his brother dies and finds himself working at a restaurant and loving it. 

Mare's War by Tanita S. Davis

• Pub Date: 2009
• Middle and High school interest
• Diversity: African-American characters
• See also: Past & Present, Extended Family 
• Two teen girls are stuck driving across country with their eccentric grandmother who has quite the story to tell.

Tripping by Heather Waldorf

• Pub Date: 2009
• High school interest
• See also: Long Lost Parents
• While traveling on a cross-country trip, Rainey learns that her birthmother wants to meet her. 

Girl Out of Water by Laura Silverman

• Pub Date: 2017
• High school interest
• See also: Long Lost Parent, Disabilities, Extended Family
• Anise and her father spend the summer in the midwest helping out her aunt and cousins, but it's road tripping back to California that helps Anise figure stuff out.

Darius the Great is not Okay by Adib Khorram

• Pub date: 2018
• High school interest
• See also: Meds & Therapy
• Darius travels to Iran with his family and learns a lot about himself there.