“So where you headed?” the girl asks, wedging her skinny knees against the seat in front of her. I’m pretty sure the woman in the window seat is wearing a tent. Like my too-short haircut and my purple suitcase, along with everything in it.
I’m wearing quick-dry khaki capris, a crispy Windbreaker, and hiking shoes that make my feet feel like Clydesdale hooves. Her fingers are covered with wooden rings. She’s wearing a stretched-out sweater and drawstring pants, her dark blond hair in a sloppy pile on top of her head. The girl tosses herself into the seat with a gusty sigh that practically rattles the double-plated windows.
After three minutes of laboring at a sudoku puzzle, she starts to snore-even though our plane’s still at the gate of LAX. A woman in a floppy hat already fills the window seat. Overpriced organic fruit & nut bar from airport terminalĪs soon as I see the blond girl bouncing down the aisle, I know she’s heading for the empty seat beside me. I hope the leaving is joyful: and I hope never to return. You mix a bunch of ingredients, and once in a great while, chemistry happens. Random House Children’s Books supports the First Amendment and celebrates the right to read. Summary: Bria, an aspiring artist just graduated from high school, takes off for Central America’s La Ruta Maya, rediscovering her talents and finding love. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Visit us on the Web! /teensĮducators and librarians, for a variety of teaching tools, Published in the United States by Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.ĭelacorte Press is a registered trademark and the colophon is a trademark of Random House, Inc. Interior illustrations copyright © 2012 by Kirsten HubbardĪll rights reserved. Jacket photograph copyright © by Laurence Mouton/PhotoAlto/Corbis
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