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Title details for Let's Get Lost by Adi Alsaid - Available

Let's Get Lost

by Adi Alsaid
Amanda Leigh Cobb
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Five strangers.Countless adventures.One epic way to get lost. Four teens across the country have only one thing in common: a girl named LEILA. She crashes into their lives in her absurdly red car at the moment they need someone the most. There's HUDSON, a small-town mechanic who is willing to throw away his dreams for true love. And BREE, a runaway who seizes every Tuesday-and a few stolen goods along the way. ELLIOT believes in happy endings.until his own life goes off-script. And SONIA worries that when she lost her boyfriend, she also lost the ability to love. Hudson, Bree, Elliot and Sonia find a friend in Leila. And when Leila leaves them, their lives are forever changed. But it is during Leila's own 4,268-mile journey that she discovers the most important truth-sometimes, what you need most is right where you started. And maybe the only way to find what you're looking for is to get lost along the way.

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  • Release date

    July 29, 2014

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781490635279
      • File size: 248431 KB
      • Duration: 08:37:33

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      In this thoughtful debut, narrator Amanda Cobb gives listeners an emotional story of a girl on a journey to find herself. Leila is traveling across the country to see the Northern Lights. On her way she encounters four teens whose lives she changes--and who end up making an impact on hers. Amanda Cobb hits all the right notes in her narration, showing us various facets of Leila's personality--her spunk, charm, and pensiveness as she searches for her identity, as well as the intensity of her crush on a boy she's just met. Cobb varies her accents, tone, and pacing for an engaging listen. Listeners will be hooked to the end. S.B.T. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award © AudioFile 2014, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      June 2, 2014
      Leila’s road trip to see the Northern Lights in Alaska takes her across the U.S. and into the lives of a series of desperate teens. In five multichapter vignettes, readers meet these characters in crisis,
      including Bree, an orphan who has run away from an older sister she considers overbearing, and Elliot, who has been rebuffed by his longtime crush on prom night. Leila spends one epic night trying to help each of these strangers, often going to extreme lengths—such sneaking a girl who has lost her passport across the Canadian border to stop a wedding disaster—before continuing her journey. The stories are distinct and Leila distinctive—she’s loyal, insightful, but no angel (she plays a drinking game with boys in one town and later gets arrested after taking an expensive car for a joyride). The individual conclusions to each section can be abrupt and a bit too neat, but debut author Alsaid creates enough adventure to make the stories feel breathless, if not always believable, ending with Leila’s own literal and figurative road home. Ages 14–up. Agency: Alloy Entertainment.

    • School Library Journal

      October 1, 2014

      Gr 8 Up-Seventeen-year-old Leila is on a solo road trip to see Alaska's Northern Lights. On her first stop she meets Hudson, a high school senior on the verge of getting a much-needed college scholarship. But their brief romance falters when he misses his appointment with the university dean. As Leila moves on, she meets Bree, Elliot, and Sonia, helping each of them through their own relationship issues. When Leila reaches her destination, she shares a secret with a friendly family. After that family's "lost" daughter is found, Leila goes back to her Mississippi relatives, and it all ends happily when Hudson finds her. Narrator Amanda Leigh Cobb brings genuine personality to the novel's diverse characters and the protagonist's youthful optimism. Realistic situations, including teens drinking, running away, and dealing with overprotective parents, make this a worthwhile addition to high school and public library collections, especially for those looking for an atypical romance.-Barbara Wysocki, retired from Cora J. Belden Library, Rocky Hill, CT

      Copyright 2014 School Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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