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Gr 7-Up It's summertime in the Minneapolis suburbs, and 15-year-old Kelleigh doesn't smoke, drink (except a few times), do drugs, or do anything bad, really, except steal cars. Her career starts innocently at the mall when she sees a guy drop his keys in the parking lot. Kelleigh keeps them as a "souvenir" and soon discovers that the owner lives near her. One evening, she and her friend Jen take his Altima for a joyride. As the jam-packed plot unfolds, Kelleigh deals with unreso...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

In this joyride of a novel, suburban Minneapolis teen Kelleigh Monahan chooses a unique subject for her extra-credit five-hundred-word essay: how to steal a car. Even more unique is that she's writing from personal experience. Hautman's charismatic first-person narrator recounts a convincing tale of a good girl stumbling upon her wild streak. Impulsively pocketing a stranger's lost keys at the mall leads to the first escapa...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Suburban teen Kelleigh chooses a unique subject for a school essay: how to steal a car. Even more unexpected--she's writing from personal...Log In or Sign Up to Read More