{"product_id":"9781938126475","title":"Looking for Jack Kerouac","description":"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt wasn't Duke Walczak's fault that I took off for Florida, like Kathy thought. The truth is, we started getting sideways with each other on our class trip to New York and Washington D.C. nearly a year earlier—which, looking back, is ironic since she was the one dead set on going.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the author of \u003ci\u003eWish You Were Here\u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003eStranded in Harmony\u003c\/i\u003e (American Library Association Best Books for Young Adults), and \u003ci\u003eVermeer's Daughter\u003c\/i\u003e (a \u003ci\u003eSchool Library Journal\u003c\/i\u003e Best Adult Book for Young Adults).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1964, Paul Carpetti discovers Jack Kerouac's \u003ci\u003eOn the Road\u003c\/i\u003e while on a school trip to New York and begins to question the life he faces after high school. Then he meets a volatile, charismatic Kerouac devotee determined to hit the road himself. When the boys learn that Kerouac is living in St. Petersburg, Florida, they go looking for answers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBarbara Shoup\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of seven novels and the co-author of two books about the fiction craft. She is the recipient of numerous grants from the Indiana Arts Council, two creative renewal grants from the Arts Council of Indianapolis, the 2006 PEN\/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship, and the 2012 Eugene and Marilyn Glick Regional Indiana Author Award. She was the writer-in-residence at Broad Ripple High School Center for the Humanities and the Performing Arts in Indianapolis for twenty years. Currently, she is the executive director of the Indiana Writers Center.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Engine Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47033469665520,"sku":"9781938126475","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781938126475_p0.jpg?v=1763663680","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781938126475","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}