Leaving the Station Whitney Gardner Trees don’t grow on sandbars

Trees don’t grow on sandbars

Presents a cast of take-charge women

White Read-Aloud Award

frozen world

Except…things don’t go quite to plan

Leaving the Station Whitney Gardner Trees don’t grow on sandbarsNina LaCour meets Alyson Derrick in this cross country journey of identity, love, and friendships as Zoe tries to figure out her life, one train stop at a time. Zoes life has gone off the rails. When she left Seattle to go to college in New York, she was determined to start fresh, to figure out what being a lesbian meant to her, to experiment with clothes and presentation away from home for the first time. Instead, she lost touch with her freshman