July 2016 First Editions Club for Young Readers

New York, NY: Little Brown (2016)

Middle Grade. Hardback. Unsigned.

As new in dust jacket.


Kim took to driving with ease--as most children would if their parents would ever let them try. She had to. After all, she and her siblings live in a car.

A band of four loosely related children live together in a lush tropical island. They take care of themselves. They sleep in their car, bathe in the ocean, eat fish they catch and fruit they pick, and can drive anywhere they need to go--to the school, the laundromat, or the drive-in. If they put their minds to it, the Fitzgerald-Trouts can do anything. Even, they hope, find a real home.

Award-winning poet and screenwriter Esta Spalding's exciting middle grade debut establishes a marvelous place where children fend for themselves, and adults only seem to ruin everything. This extraordinary world is brought to vibrant life by Sydney Smith, the celebrated artist behind Sidewalk Flowers.