Drive (Bakers Mountain Stories #4)

by Joyce Moyer Hostetter (Author)

Reading Level: 6th − 7th Grade

This middle-grade book, the fourth in the best-selling Bakers Mountain Stories series by Joyce Moyer Hostetter, features twin sisters Ida and Ellie Honeycutt, who find themselves growing apart as they respond differently to their father's postwar trauma, the NASCAR speedway in their town, and their new high school.

With home life destabilized by her father's postwar trauma, Ellie Honeycutt seeks escape at the NASCAR speedway and in her dreams of travel and college, while her twin sister, Ida, clings to family and finds solace in her sketchbook. Their close relationship is threatened when they both fall for the same charming classmate at their new high school. But a devastating car accident renews the sisters' deep bond and forces them to reverse their roles. Set against the backdrop of the nuclear arms race and the 1952 presidential election, this coming-of-age story is told in the twins' alternating voices.

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Joyce Moyer Hostetter
Joyce Moyer Hostetter is the author of historical novels, including Blue, winner of the International Reading Association Children's Book Award. She lives with her husband in Hickory, North Carolina, close to her two adult children and nine grandchildren.
Classification
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781629798653
Lexile Measure
570
Guided Reading Level
-
Publisher
Calkins Creek Books
Publication date
September 20, 2018
Series
Bakers Mountain Stories
BISAC categories
JUV016150 - Juvenile Fiction | Historical | United States - 20th Century
JUV024000 - Juvenile Fiction | Lifestyles | Country Life
JUV013070 - Juvenile Fiction | Family | Siblings
Library of Congress categories
History
Friendship
United States
20th century
North Carolina
Fathers
Teenage girls
Civilization
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Twin sisters
Stock car racing

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