This one sneaks up on you and sends you reeling. Nic Stone has written a thought-provoking story about accepting the imperfect in ourselves, in the people we love and in the world around us. This is about a boy who is finding his place in the world that isn't always perfect or accepting of him. One part history lesson, one part father/son struggles and one part accepting others at their worst. What's really happening? Where is G'ma taking him and who is this person he has known all his life? Scoob hears her at night groaning and moaning and calling out in her sleep.īit and pieces of the past are starting to swirl around Scoob and are making him uneasy and anxious. G'ma is changing the license plate on the back of the RV. Scoob is looking at the path of the Civil Rights movement with all its struggles and tragedies at the same time he is witnessing the places where his grandparents stopped on the road trip they took years back. Her trusted copy of the Green Book is now in the hands of Scoob and they are hopscotching from one RV park to another through the states of Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas. G'ma, it turns out, is retracing the stops of a trip through the South. He'll go anywhere with her and he knows it will be a great time. The RV is amazing and his G'ma is his favorite person in the world. So, when his G'ma rolls up in her RV and tells him to get in, they're going on a road trip, his suitcase is packed and he is ready to roll. He's suspended from school, no trip to the islands for spring break and his father is more distant and disapproving than ever. William, or as he is known to his G'ma, Scoob, has hit bottom.
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