Ask the Passengers
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Publication Year
2012
ISBN
9780316194686
Pages
293 pages
Genre
realism
Format
novel
Item Type
Fiction
Annotation
Astrid Jones copes with her small town's gossip and narrow-mindedness by staring at the sky and imagining that she's sending love to the passengers in the airplanes flying high over her backyard. Maybe they'll know what to do with it. Maybe it'll make them happy. Maybe they'll need it. Her mother doesn't want it, her father's always stoned, her perfect sister's too busy trying to fit in, and the people in her small town would never allow her to love the person she really wants to: another girl named Dee.
Grade Level
9-12
Lexile Measure
HL630L
Diversity Topics
LGBTQ (Gender and Sexuality); Gay/Lesbian; same-sex relationship; lesbian; lesbian teenager
Main Character
female teenager
Race/Ethnicities
White
Family Formation
mother and father
LGBTQ+
lesbian females
Keywords
rural teenagers; prejudices; family problems; love; high schools; gossip; dating; flaws; marijuana
Diversity Impact
direct
STARS Citation
King, A. S., "Ask the Passengers" (2012). Diverse Families. 46.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/diversefamilies/46