Solace of the road

Description:

Holly's story will leave a lasting impression on all who travel with her.Memories of mum are the only thing that make Holly Hogan happy. She hates her foster family with their too-nice ways and their false sympathy. And she hates her life, her stupid school, and the way everyone is always on at her. Then she finds the wig, and everything changes. Wearing the long, flowing blond locks she feels transformed. She's not Holly anymore, she's Solace: the girl with the slinkster walk and the supersharp talk. She's older, more confident--the kind of girl who can walk right out of her humdrum life, hitch to Ireland, and find her mum. The kind of girl who can face theworld head-on. So begins a bittersweet and sometimes hilarious journey as Solace swaggers and Holly tiptoes across England and through memory, discovering her true self and unlocking the secrets of her past.From the Hardcover edition.

subjects: Self-actualization in fiction,  Runaways in fiction,  Voyages and travels,  Foster home care,  Juvenile Fiction,  Hitchhiking,  Self-actualization,  Fiction,  Runaways,  Hitchhiking in fiction,  Voyages and travels in fiction,  Great Britain in fiction,  Self-actualization (Psychology),  Foster home care in fiction,  Reading Level-Grade 7,  Reading Level-Grade 9,  Reading Level-Grade 8,  Reading Level-Grade 11,  Reading Level-Grade 10,  Reading Level-Grade 12,  Children's fiction,  Runaways, fiction,  Foster home care, fiction,  Voyages and travels, fiction,  Great britain, fiction

Places: Great Britain