Title: Chasing the Milky Way
Author: Erin E. Moulton
Summary: 12 year old Lucy Peevey lives in a trailer park with her mother (who suffers from a mental illness similar to Tess's mother's mental illness in the book Rocky Road). Lucy spends her days programming her robot for the robot contest she and her best friend Cam, and younger sister, Izzy dream of going to. They almost have all of the money saved up, and they think that Lucy's mother will be well enough to take them. However, after a serious run-in with the school bully, Lucy and Cam get in trouble and her mother shows up at the school furious. The police are called, but Lucy, Izzy, Cam, and Ms. Peevey escape. They go on a huge adventure, stealing an RV, and outsmarting the authorities many times.
However, Lucy's mother crashes one day and Lucy has to manage the RV by herself and get them to their robot competition where they know that their dreams and their ticket out of the trailer park, await them. Things don't go as planned though, when they wind up getting caught by authorities. Will they try to escape again or will Lucy's mother get the help she needs?
Comments: This book was very interesting, and an exciting read. Lucy has a lot of responsibility and is nearly like a mother to her young sister, Izzy. Lucy knows how to drive despite her young age, because her grandmother (who recently passed) taught her. I found the book unrealistic, but I liked the update they gave at the end of the book; describing how they were doing after they got help.
There is some profanities in this book and God's name is said at inappropriate times quite frequently, so this book may not be suitable for those who do not want that language in their books (my family doesn't approve, but I did not know before I read the book). While I was disappointed to see the language in this book, I wouldn't let that stop an older reader from enjoying this book!
Complaints: I didn't like the use of profanity in the book.
Rating: 4 stars (because of profanity)
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