Looking for Redfeather

by Linda Collison

Overview

Life is a highway...Fifteen-year-old Ramie Redfeather leaves Cheyenne with music in his pocket and his thumb in the air. He's looking to find his father, a man he's never met. Ramie gets a ride with Chas Sweeney, a seventeen-year-old driving a "borrowed" Cadillac Eldorado with Maryland tags, who just happens to be passing through Cheyenne. Chas is running away from the wreckage that is his world, sixteen hundred miles away. In Denver Ramie and Chas meet Mae B. LaRoux, an enchanting young singer from Baton Rouge. LaRoux, who struggles with a learning disability, is on a mission to become a professional musician. the three runaways band together and set out on a fast-paced road trip to get to the Austin Music Festival, looking for Refeather on the way. They're on the road -- but it ain't Jack Kerouac's road trip! A finalist in Foreword's Book of the Year 2013 Award, Young Adult category.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780989365307
Publisher:	Fiction House, Ltd.
Publication date:	10/08/2013
Pages:	228
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.48(d)
Age Range:	14 - 17 Years

About the Author

Linda Collison's first novel, Star-Crossed, published by Alfred A. Knopf in 2006, was chosen by the New York Public Library to be among the Books for the Teen Age-2007, and inspired the Patricia MacPherson Nautical Adventure Series. Her coming-of-age story, With a Little Luck, won the former Maui Writers Grand Prize in 1996. Born in Baltimore, Linda moved to Wyoming when she was twenty-four and has been on the move -- and writing -- ever since.

Editorial Reviews

06/08/2015
Three teens embark on a soul-searching road trip in this introspective coming-of-age story. Fifteen-year-old Ramie Redfeather is looking for the musician father after whom he’s named. Chas Sweeney, 17, is driving the classic Cadillac he swiped from his grandmother, intent on escaping his disastrous life. And 16-year-old Mae B. LaRoux is a singer determined to make her name at a music festival in Austin. Thrown together by the vagaries of the road, they become fast friends and traveling companions. As their journey takes them from one city to another in search of gas money, adventure, and the occasional concert, they share the truths and pains of their respective pasts. Collison (Star-Crossed) has a strong handle on characterization and atmosphere, though the meandering plot suffers from the same indecisive nature as the characters, stalling right around the same time they settle in for a psychedelic, mushroom-fueled trip. A slightly removed tone and some overly poetic language (“They were hobos waiting for an opportunity, a train to hop, a star to fall”) can be distracting, but the story remains an engaging journey of self-discovery. Ages 14–up. (BookLife)

Publishers Weekly

“The book captures all of the emotion and uncertainty of being a teenager" Peter Dabbene; Foreword Reviews

“They’re three lost kids, geographically and spiritually, yet they’re specific and recognizable types…Much to the author’s credit, all of them are believably flawed…The resolutions of Ramie’s and LaRoux’s quests are fairly predictable but still well-laid, though Chas’s story turns out to be the more intriguing one, especially in the end.” Kirkus Reviews

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