While riding a bus with his grandfather from Portland, Maine, to New Jersey to visit his older brother in a mental hospital, thirteen-year-old Zach meets some interesting people, including one very special girl.
Twelve-year-old Sebastien Ranes is sent by his mother on a Greyhound bus to live with his grandmother, and, as he travels across the country, he learns about life and himself while having a series of misadventures with an ex-convict.
Describes what it is like to ride on different kinds of buses, including school, city, long-distance, double-decker, and shuttle buses, as well as trolleys.
On a free-wheeling bus tour of the West with assorted family members, senior citizens galore, and one boy her age, sixteen-year-old Ariel writes postcards to her maybe-boyfriend and others while trying to cope with the effects of her parents' divorce.