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Summary: Rules of the Road review
Review: The book "Rules of the Road" by Joan Bauer is a book for everyone. You see heartache, laughter, and disappointment through the eyes of this young women, Jenna Boller. Jenna is a wonderful shoe salesperson. Jenna's job is more then just selling shoes it's connecting with people and helping them. After working in this one shoe store for quite a while she gets forced into the trip of her lifetime. Spending most of her summer driving the owner of the store to Texas, this means leaving everything and everyone who she knows and loves. Can Jenna make it through? You will have to read and find out. I have not enjoyed and book for a while as much as I enjoyed "Rules of the Road." I laughed at all the jokes that Jenna cracked about the situations that she was in, and I cried when she counldn't get out of them. When you read the book you really feel like you are going through everything that Jenna goes through right along with her. I was pulled into this book right away. After you read "Rules of the Road" you will have a different view on life seeing how brave and wonderful Jenna is. I recommend this book to anyone that loves to take a great book and really live it.
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Summary: Out on the road
Review: This book is so great. What if you got to be a driver of your head boss. She get to travel from the mid-west to texas. She tells how the monopolys work. when the small nice store are taken over by the big ugly factory shoe stores. this book is so great and you love like i did!!!!!!
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Summary: Funny
Review: This is a very funny but yet a serious subject. I really liked the book because it talks about an average teenage girls every day problems.Her apperance, divorced parents,and a sister are a few of the problems she has in this book.It has a good message about everybody is not perfect in this world. Hope you like this book.
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Summary: GOOD FUN FILLED BOOK!!
Review: This is a really good book. They travel from Illinois to Texas. They had lots of exciting adventures along the way. They had the best time. This book is full of laughs and will definately keep you reading. I really liked this book. I would definately read it again.
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Summary: Joan Bauer knows more than just the rules of the road
Review: Joan Bauer's best book. It is intelligent, witty, and touching. It is a book that I would recommend to the middle reader all the way up to the adult reader. It is not just for young-adults at all. If you only read one book this year, I would suggest that you read this one. Of course, hopefully, you will read more than one book. If you are looking for smart, funny characters and dialogue, this is the definite choice for you. The comedy, however, is also covered a little by the serious plot of the story.
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Summary: We're not just selling shoes . . .
Review: we're selling quality, reads the sign above the door Gladstone's, an enormous chain of shoe stores, and the get-away of Jenna Boller. At 17, Jenna feels awkward and ugly, but while selling shoes she's at her best, and momentarily can forget about her troubled life. One day, Mrs. Gladstone, the owner of Gladstone's, requests that Jenna drive her down to Texas, taking a month out of her summer to try and convince stock holders not to vote for a merger between Gladstone's and a poor quality warehouse-type store. Mrs. Gladstone's totally against it, but her rodent son is ready to make a killing in the stock market, and won't let anything, not even his mother, stand in his way. I found Rules of the Road to be funny and touching, bringing with it a message of hope. The heroine can't always make things perfect, but there's a good chance she'll try her best!
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Summary: Jenna a Person You Can Relate to
Review: This book was one of the most interesting books I have read recently. Myself being 15 and 5'11 can relate a great amount. Yet not only I can relate. There are many things which Jenna goes through that a number of young adults can relate to. Her father whos an alcaholic is a good subject that is brought up and Im sure can do someone in the same position some good. Also her just turning 16 and how she is given this new freedom to drive herself anywhere and on her own. Also Jenna goes through what almost all teenage girls go through the fact that she dosn't find herself to the most prettiest person, yet as she goes along she learns to love herself, which is something all peopel should learn how to do. These of course are not the only ones.This books helps young adults to relate and make changes with the things that are brought and put in to their lives. If this critiria that I have just put forth isn't something that a good book provides I don't know what they should then.
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Summary: Highly Recommended!
Review: I can say, I liked this book because the plot was true. It's about a girl who has a gift for selling shoes, and six months after she gets her drivers' license, the elderly owner of their countrywide shoe chain asks the 16 year old girl to be her driver for the summer. At first, it's just small time driving, but then the journey from Chicago to Dallas begins, making stops at the other shoe stores on the way. It tells about her problems at home, and I really like this book because it's interesting. Joan Bauer is one of my favorite authors and I would highly recommend this book.
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Summary: Not what it seemed...
Review: When I first picked this book up and read the synopsis, it didn't sound very interesting, but it actually was. Does a book about a girl selling shoes on a road trip down to Texas sound interesting to you? This book was very appealing, once you get started. At times, you could actually imagine that you are with them on their road trip. You start to believe that the characters are real. This is good for a quick read.
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Summary: Outstanding Journey
Review: Pudgy, self-conscious, 16 yr. old Jenna Boller is not thrilled at the prospect of driving old Mrs. Gladstone from Chicago to Texas in her enormous white Cadillac. She is perfectly content with selling shoes in one of the many stores in the Gladstone chain. However, when Jenna's alcoholic father comes to town Jenna decides that perhaps a trip to the stockholder's meeting, with an opportunity to shoe-store spy along the way, isn't such a bad idea. Both women, committed to quality, high standards, and not allowing Gladstone's to become a shoddy enterprise, learn that their similarities far outweigh their differences. This is a heartwarming and funny tale of mutual respect across generations.
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