Tween Hobo

There's something uniquely American about road tripping, and even more so the romantic notion of riding the rails. Living the hobo life means eating beans from the can, stealing an apple pie off a widow's windowsill, and ... updating your Facebook status? In this fictionalized memoir of a year on the rails, Tween Hobo, age 11-3/4, becomes a 21st-century People's Poet in this hero's quest. Her fictional memoir, a mashup of tweets and narrative, weaves a search for her brother with philosophical insights about Instagram, Claire's Boutique, and future husband Justin Bieber. Along the way, she delivers a plagiarized school report (thank you, Wikipedia) and crushes on Z-Tay, her favorite underappreciated President. Delightfully loopy, with scenes ranging from meeting the Joads from The Grapes of Wrath to hobo pedicure parties, the novel is an acid-laced, poker-faced comedic joy ride. Recommended. (78)… (mehr)