Kim Fitzgerald-Trout took to driving with ease--as most children would
if their parents would ever let them try. She had to. After all, she and
her siblings live in a car.
Meet the Fitzgerald-Trouts, a band of four loosely related children
living together in a lush tropical island. They take care of themselves.
They sleep in their car, bathe in the ocean, eat fish they catch and
fruit they pick, and can drive anywhere they need to go--to the school,
the laundromat, or the drive-in. If they put their minds to it, the
Fitzgerald-Trouts can do anything. Even, they hope, find a real home.
Award-winning poet and screenwriter Esta Spalding's exciting middle
grade debut establishes a marvelous place where children fend for
themselves, and adults only seem to ruin everything. This extraordinary
world is brought to vibrant life by Sydney Smith, the celebrated artist
behind Sidewalk Flowers.