num_pages: 180
description: Fourteen-year-old Terry Anders, left on his own, builds a Blakely Bearcat kit car and sets off from Cleveland, bound for Portland, Oregon, in company with some unusual older companions and toward some unexpected knowledge.
language: English
title: The Car
titlecomplete: The Car
genres: Middle Grade, Young Adult, Childrens, Adventure, Coming Of Age, Road Trip, Teen, War, Fiction, Realistic Fiction
ratings_count: 1519
publisher: Harcourt Childrens Books