To Take a Dare Author:Paul Zindel, Crescent Dragonwagon Chrysta was looking for a place where the misfit fits... — Chrsysta didn't know what lay in store for her outside Benton Illinois. All she knew was that there was nothing left for her at home but more insanity. So, at thirteen she hit the road. — Two years later, when a ride to New Orleans conks out in a small Arkansas town, Chrysta's road... more » fever dies too. There, in Excelsior Springs, she discovers that it is possible to start over and find happiness. That freedom doesn't have to mean an endless highway and an outstretched thumb.
And that if she just stopped running and looked hard enough, she'd find friendship, love, and herself.« less