Drive

This middle-grade book, the fourth in the best-selling Bakers Mountain Stories series, features twin sisters Ida and Ellie Honeycutt, who find themselves growing apart as they respond differently to their father’s postwar trauma, the NASCAR speedway in their town, and their new high school.

With home life destabilized by her father’s post-World War II trauma, Ellie Honeycutt seeks escape at the NASCAR speedway and in her dreams of travel and college. Meanwhile, her twin sister, Ida, c…