How to Steal a Car by Pete Hautman
Pete Hautman has given such fabulous reads as Rash and Godless, these books are entertaining, thought provoking and push at some YA boundaries. So it's no wonder that his next book How to Steal a Car once again set me up for an enjoyable, provocative read.
From the back cover-
Are you bored out of your mind? Sick of your friends and family? Wish you were somewhere (anywhere) else? Stealing a car might help.
15 year old Kelleigh enters the world of stealing cars quite by accident, finding a man's car keys in a parking lot and taking the car for a spin was just a prank, borrowing her Dad's Lexus in the middle of the night an escape from her torturous family, stealing the neighbours car was to help out a friend, but before long the sense of being alive only comes when she is driving a stolen car.
This is a short read, told in first person narrative with tight chapters and believeable characters and will make readers consider the challenges of coming of age.
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