Evangeline Brown and the Cadillac Motel by Michele Ivy Davis

Evangeline Brown is a feisty, eleven year old who is ashamed of living with her widowed, alcoholic father in his run-down Florida motel with the butt end of a pink Cadillac sticking out of the office wall. She is stubbornly independent, but when Farrell, a strange boy her age suddenly appears in town, she cautiously befriends him. The two decide they must take drastic action when the new teacher says she will visit the homes of everyone in the class. Ebook includes bonus alternate ending and discussion questions.