Shift
by Jennifer Bradbury

Summary

You and your best friend head out West on a cross-country bike trek. The two of you get into a fight and stop riding together. You reach Seattle, go back home, start college. You think your former best friend does too. He doesn't.

Imagine your world shifting...

When Chris Collins and Winston Coggans take off on a post-graduation cross-country bike trek, Chris's hopes are high. He's looking forward to seeing the country, dodging a dull summer at a minimum wage job, and having one final adventure with his oldest friend. The journey from Hurricane, West Virginia to the coast of Washington state delivers all those things... and more.

So much more that when Chris returns home without Win at the end of the summer, he's certain their 10 year friendship is all but over. But when an FBI agent begins asking questions-and raising suspicions about Chris-he learns that saying goodbye to a friend like Win is never as simple as riding away. Shift offers an adventure story and a missing persons tale spinning around a single question: What happens when you outgrow your best friend?

Praise

"This is a great realistic mystery. Jennifer Bradbury tells a totally believable, totally engrossing story. You will keep the pages turning."
— Chris Crutcher, Margaret A. Edwards Award winning author of Deadline and Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes

"...keen details about the bike trip, the places, the weather, the food, the camping, and the locals add wonderful texture to this exciting first novel..." — Booklist, starred review, March 1, 2008

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