Calling Me Home by Macios, Laurin Becker

Calling Me Home

A beautifully crafted YA novel in verse that follows a 17-year-old girl's backpacking trip across Europe--filled with...
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Author: Laurin Becker Macios
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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Calling Me Home by Macios, Laurin Becker

Calling Me Home

$23.98

Calling Me Home

$23.98
Author: Laurin Becker Macios
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
A beautifully crafted YA novel in verse that follows a 17-year-old girl's backpacking trip across Europe--filled with awe, danger, friendships, and something like love.

Jenny Campbell, recent high school graduate, has spent her unrooted childhood planning for a future she can control: NYU, marketing major, big-city life. But first, a carefully mapped solo backpacking trip through Europe.

Only, the trip doesn't stay on the map. As she travels between countries and memories, Jenny begins to loosen her grip on the life she's scripted. She works at a bookshop in Greece, treks through the Balkans on overnight trains, falls in something-like-love in Rome.

At summer's end, Jenny returns to the States ready to launch her New York City future. And then, she learns she's pregnant. Choosing to end her pregnancy, Jenny tries to keep her plans--but finds she may no longer be the person meant to live them.

Calling Me Home is part classic travel bildungsroman (you can almost taste the ouzo in Greece and feel the wind of Ireland) and part meditation on how abortion is just one piece of a person's story.

A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection

Author: Laurin Becker Macios
Publisher: Holiday House
Published: 05/19/2026
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.67lbs
Size: 8.51h x 5.80w x 0.79d
ISBN: 9780823460496
Audience: Young Adult


Review Citation(s):
School Library Journal 03/01/2026 pg. 78
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 04/01/2026
Kirkus Reviews 03/15/2026
Booklist 05/01/2026

About the Author
Laurin Becker Macios was born in Miami, Florida, and has since called many places home. She is the former Executive Director of Mass Poetry, former Program Director of the Poetry Society of America, and an award-winning poet for adults. Calling Me Home is her YA debut.

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