For Ages
12 to 99

"I absolutely loved this book. I never wanted this journey to end!" says Morgan Matson, New York Times bestselling author of The Unexpected Everything, of this fun and irresistible contemporary YA about high school romance & mischief on the high seas.
 
With her trusty baton and six insanely organized clipboards, drum major Liza Sanders is about to take Destiny by storm—the boat, that is. When Liza discovered that her beloved band was losing funding, she found…

An Excerpt fromThe Trouble with Destiny

Chapter 1
Destiny, it turns out, is not at all what I expected.
For starters, it has three pools, a bowling alley, and more buffets than I have fingers and toes. Its passengers are dragging rolling suitcases and hoisting cheap woven beach bags stuffed with shorts and tank tops and flip-flops and bathing suits in a rainbow of colors, and some of them already seem to be sunburned. And there are giant potted palm trees dotting the various levels and decks. Palm trees. Something about palm trees floating across the ocean blows my mind.
When I was eight, the same year my parents got divorced, my dad dragged me on a cruise of the great rivers of Europe. It was a trip my mom never would have agreed to. Given a choice, she preferred to drive up to the lake and spend a week in the sand reading a water-spotted paperback. She's always hated stuffy hotels and restaurants with unpronounceable menu items. And after that cruise, I was inclined to agree with her. All I remember was wearing…