Wild Ride
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
Swindle meets Ferris Bueller's Day Off in this action-filled comedy!
No parents. No rules. No curfew.
Things are about to get dangerous...
The grownups are out-of-town, and for Charley Decker that means one thing: a last epic weekend with her older brother Greg before he leaves for college. Bring on the burgers, milkshakes, and movie marathons!
So when Greg ditches Charley for a date night downtown, she’s kind of crushed. Worse, he gets their mom's boyfriend’s super-expensive, super-rare Mustang towed and needs Charley’s help to get it back. What's an unsupervised seventh grader to do? Grab her best friends, sneak into the city, pull off the ultimate car heist, and then make Greg pay, of course!
Only now the Mustang has a new feature in the trunk: a stowaway named Mitch who’s guarding a world-changing secret. And a pair of seriously big, seriously scary dudes are after him.
What follows is an all-night race around the clock as Charley and her friends try to dodge the twin terrors, save Mitch, fix a sibling squabble...and get the Mustang home before morning!
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In a comic misadventure that recalls Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Charley Decker, 12, hopes to get in some quality time with her brother Greg, 18, when their mother heads to Hawaii with her boyfriend Derrick for the week. Instead, Greg and his girlfriend, Marisa Ng, take Derrick's beloved convertible—a Raven Black 1964 World's Fair Skyway Mustang—into downtown Chicago, where it is first impounded, then misplaced. To help Greg retrieve the car, Charley enlists her friends: voice of reason Wade Harris, authority-challenging Oona Adair, and ace impersonator Parker Nadel. But finding the Mustang isn't the end of the road: when they discover a kidnapped man in the trunk, the siblings and their friends are drawn into the evil agenda of a ruthless tech billionaire. Calabrese's (Connect the Dots) cinematic one-wild-night telling is chaotic and laugh-out-loud funny, but never at the expense of empathy and heart. As the cohort—which largely reads as white, with some names suggesting racial diversity—runs one wild scheme after another to thwart aimless "aggro-bros" and one of the world's most powerful men, they also strengthen interpersonal bonds and overcome misunderstandings, growing closer to each other. Ages 8–12.
