By Dan Elish, award-winning author of Born Too Short and 13, the Broadway musical
Dan Elish’s One Last Ride is a wryly comic coming of age story for all ages that explores the sweet pain of boyhood and moving forward in the face of loss.
Jackson Segal is a city kid at a country camp, sent there to give his struggling parents “alone time.” With divorce looming, Jackson meets a girl of his own and discovers something he is very good at: horseback riding. The last week of the summer finds Jackson trying to negotiate family dynamics, a comic first kiss, camp antics galore, as well as a tragedy on a trailride.
Kirkus Reviews raves: “One Last Ride manages to address personal and social issues that prove timeless…a nuanced and perceptive story of a boy on the cusp of teenage-hood…a sensitively written, bittersweet homage to that moment in childhood when it becomes time to grow up.”
Caldecott winning author Chistopher Raschka attests, “You don’t have to be a city kid or a country kid to love this book. You just have to have a heart.”
A young adult novel for anyone of any age who has ever been to summer camp!
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