I'll Get There, It Better Be Worth the Trip

Community breakdown

Bars show the community-aggregated score per category. Rate this book to contribute.

Thirteen-year-old Davy has a difficult time adjusting to his grandmother's death and life in New York with his erratic mother. He becomes close friends with a male classmate at his new school. The friendship later turns sexual, eventually causing Davy to struggle with feelings of guilt. It was one of the first mainstream teen novels to deal with homosexuality.