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How to Steal a Car

by Pete Hautman

Some girls act out by drinking or doing drugs. Some girls act out by sleeping with guys. Some girls act out by starving themselves or cutting themselves.

Not Kelleigh. Kelleigh steals cars.

In How to Steal a Car, National Book Award winner Pete Hautman takes teen readers on a thrilling, scary ride through one suburban girl's turbulent life — one car theft at a time.

Ages: 11, 12, 13
Interest Level: Grades 6 - 8
Grade Level Equivalent: 5.7
Lexile Measure: 880L
Book Type: Chapter Book
Genre: Realistic Fiction, Young Adult