Even when G'ma starts acting stranger than usual. What Not to Bring:Ī Cell Phone: Avoid contact with Dad at all costs. It holds history, memories, and most important, the way home. Use the Green Book: G'ma's most treasured possession. Grab a Suitcase: Prepacked from the big spring break trip that got CANCELLED.įasten Your Seatbelt: G'ma's never conventional, so this trip won't be either. How to Go on an Unplanned Road Trip with Your Grandma: And the father they go, the more Scoob realizes that the world hasn't always been a welcoming place for kids like him, and things aren't always what they seem-G'ma included.'-Jacket flap.īook Synopsis From #1 New York Times bestselling author Nic Stone comes a timely middle-grade road-trip story through landmarks of the Civil Rights movement and the map they lay for contemporary race relations. But adventure quickly turns to uncertainty: G'ma keeps changing the license plate, dodging Scoob's questions, and refusing to check Dad's voice mails.

With G'ma's old maps and a strange pamphlet called the 'Travelers' Green Book' at their side, the pair takes off on a journey down G'ma's memory lane. So when G'ma, Scoob's favorite person on Earth, asks him to go on an impromptu road trip, he's in the RV faster than he can say FREEDOM. 'Truly a delight.About the Book 'For the life of him, William 'Scoob' Lamar can't seem to stay out of trouble-and now the run-ins at school have led to lockdown at home. Set against the backdrop of the segregation history of the American South, take a trip with this New York Times best seller and an 11-year-old boy who is about to discover that the world hasn't always been a welcoming place for kids like him, and things aren't always what they seem - his G'ma included.

A cell phone: Avoid contact with Dad at all costs.Use the green book: G'ma's most treasured possession.Fasten your seatbelt: G'ma's never conventional, so this trip won't be either.Grab a suitcase: prepacked from the big spring break trip that got cancelled.How to go on an unplanned road trip with your grandma: From number one New York Times best-selling author Nic Stone comes a timely middle-grade road-trip story through landmarks of the Civil Rights movement and the map they lay for contemporary race relations.

Clean Getaway by Nic Stone