Awards

• Winner of School Library Journal Best of 1969 Book List.
• Winner of Time magazine New York Times Best of 1969 Book List.

Overview

I'll Get There. It Better Be Worth the Trip. is best known as the first teen novel to address homosexuality. Set in 1969, Donovan's seminal tale centers on Davy Ross, a lonely thirteen-year-old who moves to Manhattan to live with his estranged mother. Then he meets a boy and experiences something that changes his life. The 40th anniversary edition of a groundbreaking teen classic. When the grandmother who raised him dies, Davy Ross, a lonely thirteen-year-old boy, must move to Manhattan to live with his estranged mother. Between alcohol-infused lectures about her self-sacrifice and awkward visits with his distant father, Davy's only comfort is his beloved dachshund Fred. Things start to look up when he and a boy from school become friends. But when their relationship takes an unexpected turn, Davy struggles to understand what happened and what it might mean. AGES: 12 to 18 AUTHOR: John Donovan was a novelist and a playwright, who also served as the president of the Children's Book Council. I'll Get There. It Better Be Worth the Trip. was originally published in 1969 and reprinted by Dell in 1973.

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Reviews

Sophisticated ... remarkably touching. --<em>Time</em> magazine New York

Shattering... frank... intelligent. --Horn Book This book... should be available wherever young people read. --New York Times Sophisticated... remarkably touching. --Time magazine New York. This anniversary edition features reflections from Brent Hartinger (Geography Club), Martin Wilson (What They Always Tell Us), and Kathleen T. Horning (Director of the Cooperative Children's Book Center), with a foreword by Stacey Donovan (Dive).

Shattering ... frank ... intelligent. --Horn Book This book ... should be available wherever young people read. --New York Times Sophisticated ... remarkably touching. --Time magazine New York

Author Information

John Donovan was a novelist and a playwright, who also served as the president of the Children's Book Council. I'll Get There. It Better Be Worth the Trip. was originally published in 1969 and reprinted by Dell in 1973.

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