Road tripped
(Book)

Seventeen-year-old Steven "Stiggy" Gabel tries to cope with his father's suicide, his mother's depression, and his girlfriend's departure by taking off down the Great River Road from Minnesota to Louisiana.

Steven 'Stiggy' Gerald Gabel needs to get out of Minnesota. His father recently took his own life, his mother is a shell of the person she used to be, and his sort-of-girlfriend ghosted him and skipped town. Armed with his mom's credit card and a tourist map of Great River Road, Stiggy sets off in his dad's car. The only problem is, life on his own isn't exactly what he expected. He soon finds himself at a crossroads: keep running from his demons, or let them hitch a ride back home with him. -- adapted from jacket

HL610L,Lexile

Decoding demand: 92 (very high),Semantic demand: 100 (very high),Syntactic demand: 86 (very high),Structure demand: 87 (very high),Lexile

Accelerated Reader AR,UG,4.2,9,514821.