Zane's Trace

By Allan Wolf

Book Overview

A coming-of-age road story with a supernatural twist -- and a compulsively readable poetic novel about identity and belonging. Zane Guesswind has just killed his grandfather, or so he believes. So he steals the 1969 Plymouth Barracuda his long-gone father left behind and takes off on a manic trip to his mother's grave to kill himself. Armed with a six-pack of Mountain Dew, a jumbo pack of Sharpies (for scribbling all over the dashboard), and a loaded gun in the trunk, he's headed to Zanesville, Ohio, with no rearview mirror and no more worries. On the way, he meets Libba, a young hitchhiker who shares his destination, and other mystic and mysterious characters. With each encounter, and every mile marker he passes, Zane gets farther from the life he knows -- but closer to figuring out who he really is.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0763628581
• ISBN13: 9780763628581
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.5"
• Age Range: 14 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 9 and higher