Rules of the road

Synopsis

Jenna Boller is the star employee at her branch of Gladstone's Shoes -she knows her stock and knows her stuff. But her family problems are harder to handle, and there are times when Jenna wishes she could just escape. So when Madeline Gladstone, the elderly president of the shoestore chain, hires Jenna as her driver for the summer, Jenna leaps at the chance-right into the driver's seat. And that begins a cross-country adventure from Chicago to Dallas, where she and Mrs. Gladstone learn a lot about the rules of the road...and the rules of life. Joan Bauer's perceptive, humorous novel is one no reader-teenager or adult-should miss. Winner of the 1998 Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winner of the SCBWI Golden Kite Award An ALA Notable Book An ALA Best Book for Young Adults An ALA Quick Pick A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year An American Bookseller Pick of the Lists A BCCB Blue Ribbon Book