num_pages: 272
description: Hitch a ride with 11-year-old Hazmat and her dad in their 18-wheeler Leonardo for a feel-good road trip across America that keeps on trucking!Life on the road with Daddy is as good as gets for Hazmat. Together theyve been taking jobs and crisscrossing the US for years. Now Daddys talking about putting down roots  somewhere Hazmat can go to a real school and make friends. Somewhere Daddy doesnt have to mail-order textbooks about natures promise to all women. Somewhere Moms ashes can rest on a mantel and not on a dashboard.While everything just keeps changing sometimes in ways she cant control Hazmat isnt ready to give up the freedom of long-distance hauling. Sure the road is filled with surprises from plane crashes and robo trucks to runaway hitchhikers and abandoned babies but that all makes for great stories! So Hazmat hatches a plan to make sure Daddys dream never becomes a reality. Because theres only one place Hazmat belongs: in the navigators seat right next to Daddy with the whole country flying by and each day different from the last.Award-winning author Louise Hawes writes with an easy conversational voice and an Ill never grow up spirit that cheerfully thumbs its nose at traditional coming-of-age narratives. This heart-tugging laugh-out-loud portrait of a father and daughter is a satisfying journey across modern America you wont want to miss.
language: English
title: Big Rig
publisher: Peachtree