Out the Door
Christy Hale
A girl and her father leave their brownstone one morning and make their way through a crowded city to her school. Their trip includes streets, a subway station, a busy train, and her classroom. The narrative uses prepositional phrases to track each stage of the journey and its changing directions. After school, the book retraces the route home through bedtime. On the last page, the girl is ready to leave again as another day begins, turning an ordinary commute into a cycle of movement and discovery.
This book appears on 2 reading lists across 2 editions from 2 organizations.
