Rules of the Road by Joan Bauer

Jenna Boller is very tall for her sixteen years, and she gets her ability to sell anything to anybody from her alcoholic dad.  And her six month old driver’s license gets less use than her Chicago Public Library card.  But when the president of the shoe store where Jenna works walks in one day and hires her to drive her around, Jenna thinks it’ll be a fun summer road trip.  But there are reasons Madeline Gladstone wants to visit every Gladstone Shoe Store between here and Dallas, and maybe, just maybe, Jenna can help.

Review by Kathleen

Peeled by Joan Bauer

Hildy Biddle is the star reporter at her high school’s newspaper.  Usually the school newspaper covers the events at the school, and events like the crowning of the annual Apple Blossom Queen, but this year, the school has a new event to cover.  There are strange things happening at a farm at the edge of town, and the local newspaper is claiming it’s a ghost and printing all of the gossip.  But when the school newspaper does some real digging on the story, they get shut down.  Hildy and her fellow journalists have to go underground to print the real news and solve the case.

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Review by Kathleen