Applewhites Coast to Coast

This third story about the madcap family introduced in Stephanie Tolans Newbery Honor Book Surviving the Applewhites features even more outlandish adventures and will appeal to fans of the Applewhites and those meeting them for the first time.E.D. and Jake are doing their best to forget their bewildering kissafter all, theyre practically familyand get back to normal life with the decidedly abnormal, highly creative Applewhites.When the familys biggest fan, Jeremy Bernstein, pulls up to Wits End in an Art Bus, he brings with him a proposal for an Education Expedition: a cross-country road trip, educational quest, and video-documented competition for a big cash prize. Jeremy also drags along his troubled but beautiful niece, Melody. Shell be joining the expedition with her own rebellious flair, much to Jakes delight . . . and E.D.s exasperation.With characteristic Applewhite enthusiasm, the artists face disastrous performances, fainting goats, and some very bad ideasbut can they make it through the road trip in one piece?