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    On the Road to Find Out: A Novel

    By Rachel Toor

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    On New Year's Day, Alice Davis goes for a run. Her first ever. It's painful and embarrassing, but so was getting denied by the only college she cares about. Alice knows she has to stop sitting around and complaining to her best friend, Jenni, and her pet rat, Walter, about what a loser she is. But what she doesn't know is that by taking those first steps out the door, she is setting off down a road filled with new challenges—including vicious side stitches, chafing in unmentionable places, and race-paced first love—and strengthening herself to endure when the going suddenly gets tougher than she ever imagined, in On the Road to Find Out by Rachel Toor.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateJun 10, 2014
    ISBN9780374300159
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    On the Road to Find Out: A Novel
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    Rachel Toor

    Rachel Toor was an admissions officer at Duke University for three years. She currently writes for The Chronicle of Higher Education and various running magazines.

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    • 4/5
      I really enjoyed ON THE ROAD TO FIND OUT. Alice Davis is used to success. She's number one in her class. But when she is rejected from Yale, her only choice college, she feels like a failure. It throws her off her game and she obsesses about her failure to her best friend Jenni and her pet rat Walter. They are her only confidants. So Alice makes a New Year's Resolution to run. It starts out badly for her but she doesn't let herself quit. Running leads her to expanding her world. She faces a number of challenges but meets new people, including a boy who is also a runner, and learns some things that get her out of her self-absorption.I will admit that I cried when Alice met her biggest challenge and I cheered for her when she made her speech as valedictorian of her class. Watching Alice grow and change was an engaging experience. I couldn't put the book down.
    • 4/5
      Uber competitive academically, but highly introverted, Alice stews over being rejected at her first college of choice, Yale. Her closest confidantes are her best friend, Jenni, and her pet rat, Walter. It is upon Jenni's advice that she take up running as a New Year's resolution. Alice finds she really likes the sport, and soon lands a job in Joan's running store. As Alice discovers a kindered spirit in Miles, homeschool student and fellow runner, something happens that upsets Alice's world. Her family and friends, most notably Joan, who once tried out for the Olympics, help Alice eventually realize that she may be focusing on the wrong things and to think about what really matters in life. Found this book to be introspective; not a heavy-handed romance per se but Alice's relationship with Miles was very charming.