Mosquitoland

When sixteen-year-old Mim’s parents divorce, she finds herself uprooted and moved hundreds of miles from her mom to live with her dad and her new stepmom. When Mim overhears a conversation that her mother may be ill, Mim steals her stepmom’s money to buy a bus ticket back home. Her road trip is filled with challenging adventures and unusual characters, and turns out to be as much a journey of self-discovery for Mim as a trip to see her mom. This dynamic narrative, with its complex style and content, is best-suited as an independent, silent reading, or literature circle novel for grade 10-12 students, and deals with issues of identity, mental illness, coming-of-age, family, relationships, and self-discovery.