Back in the RV, Scoob sees G'ma with a pair of pink earrings that look identical to the ones she tried on in the jewelry store. Scoob's father told him that, because he is black, he will be judged more harshly than his white peers. When his classmates were caught, they blamed Scoob. Scoob tells G'ma about another incident at school in which he had shown some other students how to change their grades in the school computer. He then goes to the front of the RV and finds her phone, which has 17 missed calls from his father.ĭriving through Mississippi, they stop at a jewelry store. Later that night, he hears her saying the same thing in her sleep. G'ma laments Jimmy's imprisonment, wishing she could “go back and fix it” (55). They visit the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, where a bombing killed four little girls in 1963. Scoob wakes up one morning and sees G'ma changing the license plate on the RV. However, he does know that Destiny has recently been calling his father asking to meet Scoob. Scoob also knows little about his own mother, Destiny, who left the family shortly after Scoob was born. All Scoob knows about his grandfather is that Jimmy went to prison for theft and died there. G'ma and Jimmy were unable to make it all the way to Mexico as they had planned, and G'ma hopes to recreate the trip with Scoob, but to finish it this time. G'ma tells Scoob that she took a road trip with Jimmy in 1968 and the Green Book told them where they could safely stop throughout the South as an interracial couple without risk of harassment.

Inside are some maps, photographs of Scoob's grandfather Jimmy, and a book called the Travelers Green Book. After lunch, Scoob and G'ma visit a state park, where G'ma shows Scoob the box where she keeps important belongings. As he talks, Scoob notices he is attracting disdainful stares from the other diners, and he assumes this is because he is a black boy eating with his white grandmother. At the restaurant, Scoob tells G'ma about a fight he got into at school because a bully was picking on his friend Shenice's brother. They begin their trip by crossing the Georgia border into Alabama where they stop for lunch. Scoob has recently gotten in trouble at school and been grounded by his father, James, so he is particularly anxious to get away. She tells him she has just sold her house to buy the vehicle and she invites him on a road trip.

The novel opens with the 11-year-old protagonist William “Scoob” Lamar being picked up by his grandmother, whom he calls “G'ma,” in an RV. New York: Crown Books for Young Readers, 2020. The following version of this book was used to create this study guide: Stone, Nic.

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