Description: Bauer's novel about an earnest teenager who chauffeurs a crabby, wealthy woman has the underpinnings of a quirky Driving Miss Daisy, but the story quickly runs out of gas. Sixteen-year-old Jenna Boller has the world by the tail. She's just received her driver's licence and she loves her job at Gladstone's Shoe Store. Even better, she's been tapped to drive Mrs. Madeline Gladstone, the imposing president of the shoe store chain, from Chicago to Dallas for an important shareholders meeting. During the road trip Jenna gets a chance to demonstrate her passion for shoe salesmanship at various Gladstone stores; she also learns of Elden Gladstone's plan to push his mother aside in favour of a major merger. While Jenna educates herself in the ways of big business and dealing with difficult people, she also ruminates about her alcoholic father, her ailing grandmother and her mom and sister waiting at home. She arrives back in Chicago both braver and wiser. As in Squashed, Bauer begins with an intriguing premise, weaves in unusual settings and scenarios and creates an offbeat first-person narrator to relay them. But a supporting cast of stock characters and forced dialogue may disappoint readers of her previous novels. Ages 12-up. Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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EAN: 9780142404256
UPC: 9780142404256
ISBN: 9780142404256
MPN: N/A
Book Title: Rules of the Road
Number of Pages: 208 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Penguin Young Readers Group
Publication Year: 2005
Topic: Transportation / Cars & Trucks, Girls & Women, Family / Multigenerational, Family / General (See Also Headings under Social Themes), Social Themes / Emotions & Feelings, Social Themes / Drugs, Alcohol, Substance Abuse, People & Places / United States / General, Careers, Occupations, Internships
Item Height: 0.5 in
Genre: Juvenile Fiction, Young Adult Fiction
Item Weight: 7.2 Oz
Author: Joan Bauer
Item Length: 8.2 in
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
