I have been so excited about my new book, Drive Me Crazy, for a very long time for very many reasons: 1) It is my first foray into middle grade, and it was SO FUN to write; 2) Writing it meant I got to work once again with my former Simon Pulse editor, Anica Rissi, and join the team of fabulous authors writing for Katherine Tegen Books; 3) Drive Me Crazy is both a friendship story AND a road trip story (with some great grandparents in there too), and I love all those things; 4) LOOK AT THIS GORGEOUS COVER!!
As we get closer to publication (not until April 2015), I will be writing more about Drive Me Crazy and what went into writing it, but for now let’s all gaze upon the fun and pretty for awhile.
Here’s what Drive Me Crazy will be about:
Buckle up…
Lana and Cassie have met only once before, at the wedding of Lana’s Grandpa Howe and Cassie’s Grandma Tess two months ago. They didn’t exactly hit it off—in fact, depending on who you ask, that first meeting was either an embarrassment or a disaster—but they’re about to spend an entire week together, just the two of them and their honeymooning grandparents, road-tripping in Cassie’s grandmother’s Subaru.
Lana thinks a summer road trip sounds like fun, but the backseat is a crowded place for two tween girls with two huge secrets to hide, and this bumpy road to friendship is full of unexpected twists and turns. Like it or not, they’re in this together, full speed ahead on the adventure of a lifetime.