Road to Wherever

Description: Includes Go Fish: Questions for the author

Brief description: John Ed Bradley is the prolific author of several highly praised novels and a memoir, It Never Rains in Tiger Stadium. A former reporter for The Washington Post, he has also written for Esquire, Sports Illustrated, GQ, and Play magazines. He lives with his wife and daughter in Mandeville, Louisiana.

Review Quotes:

"Combining all the best features of a road trip and a coming-of-age tale . . . The back-roads odyssey, which takes on a ritualistic, dreamlike quality even as it takes the travelers from Wisconsin to Louisiana, of course parallels an inner one as June works through the grief-fueled anger sparked by the sudden disappearance of his dad." --School Library Journal, starred review

"Car fanciers will relish the details while the family issues will resonate with many readers . . . Offbeat and upbeat." --Kirkus Reviews

"For middle graders new to the road trip genre, there are few better routes to travel than Bradley's . . . The Ball brothers are the stars here, and Bradley makes them quirky enough to keep the tone light and big-hearted enough to demonstrate that any job done with skill and passion deserves--and gets--respect." --Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books