Dowd, Siobhan.

Solace of the road / Siobhan Dowd. - New York : David Fickling Books, c2009. - 260 p. ; 22 cm.

While running away from a London foster home just before her fifteenth birthday, Holly has ample time to consider her years of residential care and her early life with her Irish mother, whom she is now trying to reach.

A Junior Library Guild selection.

ISBN: 9780375861246 (tr.pbk.)

LCCN: 2008044603

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Missing persons--Fiction.
Foster home care--Fiction.
Hitchhiking--Fiction.
Voyages and travels--Fiction.
Self-actualization (Psychology)--Fiction.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Great Britain--Fiction.

Dewey Class. No.: [Fic]