Driver's Ed

Drivers Ed is one of the many dramatic and impacting novels written by Caroline B. Cooney. It basically talks about these ordinary and naive high school students in their driver's education class who eventually learn the importance of the class from a horrific and fatal event involving a few of their classmates that will change their lives forever.The story starts off as a normal routine for the main characters, Remy Marland and Morgan Campbell, who obviously have strong feelings for each other throughout the book. Despite the fact they both have a very strong desire of receiving their driver's license; their Drivers Education Class becomes simply a class where they do nothing but dream of each other's existence and play the game of which one will ask the other out on a date first instead of every class being a learning experience. Their friends share the same line of thought as well ignoring the true importance of a class that prepares one for the first step of entering adulthood. One day, Remy, Morgan and a few other friends named Lark and Nickie go on a driving assignment for their class when they come across a unique road sign that says THICKLY SETTLED. The sign appeals to Lark a lot and she is inspired to add it to her road sign collection. She eventually encourages the gang to go out on a stealing spree for other signs for themselves days later. One of the most appealing signs they ended up stealing was a large, red stop sign at the intersection of Cherry road and Warren Street in the story. Just days later, the evening news comes on and one of main topics discussed is about 26 year-old Denise Thompson being involved in a car accident at the intersection of Cherry Road and Warren Street where she was killed instantly. Her cause of death: failure to stop at what was supposed to be a stop sign, but instead was a simple wooden post that seemed to be cut at the top with a hacksaw. Denise Thompson's Family is heavily impacted by the incident leaving behind her 2 year old son Bobby and her husband who loved her with all his heart.The incident impacts the teens in countless ways such as slowly being eaten alive by the guilt they felt inside. They are soon brought to the conclusion of whether they should confess to their parents, the law, and even Mr. Thompson himself, or should they keep quiet for the rest of their entire lives and hope the guilt they feel inside will dissolve into the back of their memory forever.Unfortunately, the absolute most I could possibly give this book were 2 stars because the novel contained way too much romance at the beginning between the main characters Remy Marland and Morgan Campbell (well, at least too much for myself to handle!!). Although I did enjoy the life lesson it taught me on the importance of my Drivers Ed class. I would definitely recommend this book to other high school teens that enjoy novels that contain a lot of drama that never makes you want to stop reading. I wouldn't recommend this book for people like me who absolutely cannot stand any type of romance what so ever in novels or simply don't enjoy novels that reflect on sadness and guilt more than anything else. I personally would recommend trying Code Orange by this author though. It's probably my favorite one she's written so far.

A book

not what i expected

Py

Arrived just fine.

This is by far the BEST book I have ever read. It has so much detail and emotion put into it and I really think that Cooney did a fantastic job! K CANNOT WAIT to read another one of her amazing. !!!;)

It was a great book. The only thing that I didn't like was that it started out very slow for the first 2 chapters or so. Other than that it was a great read and I would certainly recommend it to friends!

ITS FOR MY SON PROJECT