Let's Get Lost
Let's Get Lost: A coming-of-age novel
Let's Get Lost
Five strangers. Countless adventures.One epic way to get lost. Four teens across the country have only one thing in common: a girl named LEILA. She crashes into their lives in her absurdly red car at the moment they need someone the most.  There's HUDSON, a small-town mechanic who is willing to throw away his dreams for true love. And BREE, a runaway who seizes every Tuesday—and a few stolen goods along the way. ELLIOT believes in happy endings…until his own life goes off-script. And SONIA worries that when she lost her boyfriend, she also lost the ability to love. Hudson, Bree, Elliot and Sonia find a friend in Leila. And when Leila leaves them, their lives are forever changed. But it is during Leila's own 4,268-mile journey that she discovers the most important truth— sometimes, what you need most is right where you started. And maybe the only way to find what you're looking for is to get lost along the way.

Book Details

Genre: 

  • Adventure
  • Fiction
  • For Reluctant Readers
  • Short Story

Age Level: 

  • 12 and up
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This book is about a girl neamed Leila who is on a road trip to see the Northern lights. The story is then told in the perspective that she meets on her trip. All of the people see meets need Leila to help them and she helps them all find what they missing.

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Leila is a girl traveling across the country on a mission to see the Northern Lights. On her way, she enters the lives of four teens across the United States. First she runs into Hudson, a mechanic in a tiny town, who doesn’t hesitate to discard his dreams in order to have true love. Then there’s Bree, a hitchhiker with a complicated family life who steals what she needs. Elliot is a broken-hearted romantic who just wants his best friend to know how much he loves her.

Adi Alsaid's Let's Get Lost follows the road trip of a mysterious yet memorable girl named Leila and the four disparate individuals that she encounters along the way. Leila is utterly alive and unique in a mesmerizing sense.

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Let’s Get Lost, the debut novel of author Adi Alsaid, has both the charm of the small towns its characters visit and the suspense of a good mystery. The story is split into four parts, each one following a teenager in different parts of the country. Each of these characters needs help—Hudson is a mechanic with an impending interview that could change his life. Bree is a runaway, alone on the highway. Elliot has just been turned down by the love of his life, and Sonia is a bridesmaid torn between the two boys she loves.

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Leila's parents and sister were killed in a car accident. The car accident caused Leila to forget everything, except a story about the northern lights. Now Leila is now on a quest to try and remember her life before the accident... by traveling up north. Along the way, she meets Hudson, Bree, Elliot, and Sonia, and changes their lives. But the question is can she remember hers?

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