Going on Nine illustrated by Lionel Richerand Along for the ride are

Along for the ride are a comical Polish exile

and your nightmarish reveries

Robin Fennel

and Veronica Webb

With essays by leading authorities

Going on Nine illustrated by Lionel Richerand Along for the ride areA child swipes her mother's ring, snatches her sister's nightgown, and runs outside to play "bride." She soon loses the ring, rips the gown, correctly assumes it's about to rain daggers, and runs away from home to find a better family. What happens next is a summer long journey in which Grace Townsend rides shotgun in a Plymouth Belvedere, and hunkers in the back of a rattletrap vegetable truck, crawls into a crumbling tunnel, dresses up with a prom