Chasing the Skip
Readers rate it 3.5 (2 on Hardcover)
238 pages · Released Oct 2, 2012 · Macmillan
Content report card
Chasing the Skip parent’s guide: what’s inside
LGBTQ+ themes
Substance use
What it offers
Positive messages
Positive role models
Educational value
A note for parents
Chasing the Skip is a middle-grade adventure that follows a teenage girl reconnecting with her absent father while working as a bounty hunter. The story emphasizes family reconciliation, personal growth, and trust-building through shared experience. While there are some mild threats and tension inherent to the bounty-hunting premise, the content is generally appropriate for readers 12 and up who enjoy action-adventure narratives with emotional depth.
Analyzed by AI · 1 month ago
Read it with your kids?
Rate it and suggest an age to help other parents.
From the publisher
When 15-year-old Ricki's mother finally leaves for good, Ricki's absentee father steps in, taking her with him as he chases bail "skips" across the country. But their fledgling relationship is tested as they pursue attractive, manipulative, 17-year-old Ian Burnham. When 15-year-old Ricki's mother finally leaves for good, Ricki's absentee father steps in, taking her with him as he chases bail "skips" across the country. But their fledgling relationship is tested as they pursue attractive, manipulative, 17-year-old Ian Burnham.
Shelved under
- Juvenile Fiction
- JUVENILE FICTION / Action & Adventure / General
- JUVENILE FICTION / Social Issues / New Experience
- Bounty hunters
- JUVENILE FICTION / Mysteries & Detective Stories
- Fiction
- Fathers and daughters
- Automobile travel
- Fugitives from justice
- JUVENILE FICTION / Family / Parents
- Children's fiction
- Fathers and daughters, fiction
Share this guide
ISBN 9780805093919 · Macmillan