Wild Ride

By Keith Calabrese

A seventh grader must retrieve a towed Mustang, uncover a secret, and evade danger in one wild night.

3.7/5 Goodreads · 95 ratings

256 pages

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Bookroo's summary

Charley Decker's weekend plans with her brother Greg take a wild turn when Greg's date night leads to a towed Mustang. With a stowaway hiding a world-changing secret in the trunk, Charley and her friends embark on a daring city adventure. As they race against time, they must outsmart dangerous pursuers, save their new ally, and resolve sibling tensions—all before dawn. Can Charley pull off the ultimate heist and get the Mustang home safely?

From the publisher

Swindle meets Ferris Bueller’s Day Off in this action-filled comedy!No parents. No rules. No curfew.Things are about to get dangerous…The grownups are out-of-town, and for Charley Decker that means one thing: a last epic weekend with her older brother Greg before he leaves for college. Bring on the burgers, milkshakes, and movie marathons!So when Greg ditches Charley for a date night downtown, she’s kind of crushed. Worse, he gets their mom’s boyfriend’s super-expensive, super-rare Mustang towed and needs Charley’s help to get it back. What’s an unsupervised seventh grader to do? Grab her best friends, sneak into the city, pull off the ultimate car heist, and then make Greg pay, of course!Only now the Mustang has a new feature in the trunk: a stowaway named Mitch who’s guarding a world-changing secret. And a pair of seriously big, seriously scary dudes are after him.What follows is an all-night race around the clock as Charley and her friends try to dodge the twin terrors, save Mitch, fix a sibling squabble…and get the Mustang home before morning!

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