Robin is devastated when she learns that her boyfriend is going to Italy for the summer - it's supposed to be their last holiday together before he goes away to college. Since he will be away, Robin reluctantly agrees to join her widowed aunt and bratty cousins on a cross-country road trip. Over the course of what becomes an eye-opening journey, Robin discovers inner strengths and resources she never imagined she had.

 

There are 224 pages in this book. This book was published 2003 by Simon & Schuster .

Ellen Wittlinger is the author of several highly acclaimed books for young adults. A former children's librarian, she lives with her husband and two children in Swampscott, Massachusetts.