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Mike Klingenberg is a troubled fourteen-year-old from a dysfunctional family in Berlin who thinks of himself as boring, so when a Russian juvenile delinquent called Tschick begins to pay attention to him and include Mike in his criminal activities, he is excited--until those activities lead to disaster on the autobahn. Mike, a troubled 14-year-old from a dysfunctional family in Berlin, finds friendship when a Russian juvenile delinquent called Tschick begins to pay attention to and include Mike in his criminal activities. The plot contains profanity and violence.

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Editions

14 editions · 6 languages
  • Other · English · 2014
    Why We Took the Car
    Scribe Publications · 9781925113129
  • Other · English · 2014
    Why We Took the Car
    Scholastic, Incorporated · 9780545586368
  • Other · English · 2014
    Why we took the car
    Arthur A. Levine Books/Scholastic · 245 pages · 9780545481809
  • Other · English · 2014
    Why we took the car
    Andersen Press · 245 pages · 9781783440313
  • Other · English · 2013
    You, Me, and a Russian Jeep
    Scholastic, Incorporated · 9780545481816
  • Paperback · German · 2018
    Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH · 9783499216510
ImmigrantsFictionRussiansAutomobile theftJuvenile delinquentsSelf-esteemFriendshipAbenteuer