Looking for Jack Kerouac

About this book

It wasnt Duke Walczaks 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. From the author of Wish You Were Here andStranded in Harmony (American Library Association Best Books for Young Adults) and Vermeers Daughter (a School Library Journal Best Adult Book for Young Adults). In 1964 Paul Carpetti discovers Jack Kerouacs On the Road 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. Barbara Shoup 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.