Driver’s Ed was like so many things in school. If the parents only knew . . .
About Driver’s Ed
The universal experience for most high school students is learning to drive and getting their driver’s license. Add breathlessly plotted romance and an accident and you have a poignant and realistic novel.
Remy Martin prays to the God of Driver’s Education that she will get to drive today. She doesn’t know where she’s going, but she knows one thing . . . she is going to get there fast.
Morgan Campbell had been standing on the threshold of 16 and getting his driver’s license ever since he could remember. But deep into the first crush of his life, thinking of nothing but girls, Morgan forgot what driving was all about.
This poignant novel about responsibility and consequences is as convincing as it is irresistible.
Caroline B. Cooney is the author of Family Reunion; Goddess of Yesterday (an ALA Notable Children’s Book); The Ransom of Mercy Carter; Tune in Anytime; Burning Up; The Face on the Milk Carton (an IRA-CBC Children’s Choice Book) and its companions, Whatever Happened to Janie? and The… More about Caroline B. Cooney
About Caroline B. Cooney
Caroline B. Cooney is the author of Family Reunion; Goddess of Yesterday (an ALA Notable Children’s Book); The Ransom of Mercy Carter; Tune in Anytime; Burning Up; The Face on the Milk Carton (an IRA-CBC Children’s Choice Book) and its companions, Whatever Happened to Janie? and The… More about Caroline B. Cooney
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Praise
“A wrenching, breathlessly paced plot and an adrenaline-charged romance make Cooney’s latest novel nearly impossible to put down. . . . This modern-day morality tale is as convincing as it is irresistible.”—Publishers Weekly, Starred
“A poignant, realistic novel, with nicely drawn characters.”—Booklist, Starred
An ALA Best Book for Young Adults
An ALA Quick Pick
A Booklist Children’s Editors’ Choice
Awards
ALA Best Books for Young AdultsWINNER 1995
New Jersey Garden State Children’s Book AwardWINNER 1997
Pacific Northwest Young Readers Choice AwardWINNER 1997
Tennessee Volunteer State Book AwardWINNER 1997
Texas Lone Star Reading ListWINNER 1996
Washington Evergreen Young Adult Book AwardWINNER 1997
Author Q&A
Caroline Cooney was born in 1947 and grew up in Old Greenwich, Connecticut. An excellent student and ambitious youth, she loved school and was involved in many different activities. By the time she was in tenth grade, Cooney played the piano for musical productions, directed a choir, and had a job as a church organist. Always an avid reader, Cooney often read series books such as The Hardy Boys and Cherry Ames. These characters had a big influence on her life and in fact, she says "Cherry Ames, Student Nurse, was my reason to go to nursing school in Boston later in life." Coooney graduated from Greenwich High School in 1965 and attended various colleges, where she studied music, art, and English. It was in college that she began writing, and discovered a talent and joy in what would become an award-winning writing career. Cooney professes, "I love writing and do not know why it is considered such a difficult, agonizing profession. I love all of it, thinking up the plots, getting to know the kids in the story, their parents, backyards, pizza toppings." Cooney’s love of writing for young adults is clearly demonstrated in her numerous celebrated novels including: Driver’s Ed (An ALA Best Book for Young Adults, an ALA Quick Pick for Young Adults, and a Booklist Editors’ Choice), Among Friends (A New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age), Twenty Pageants Later (An ALA Quick Pick for Reluctant Young Adult Readers), and the time travel novels, Both Sides of Time and Out of Time. She is a master of mixing spellbinding suspense with thought-provoking insight into teenagers’ lives. Among Cooney’s most popular books are the bestselling novels The Face on the Milk Carton, Whatever Happened to Janie? and The Voice on the Radio. These gripping novels tell the story of Janie Johnson, a young girl who recognizes herself in a picture of a missing child on a milk carton, and subsequently unravels a complicated history of abduction, fear and deceit. To satisfy the hundreds of fans wanting to know more, Cooney concluded Janie’s captivating story with What Janie Found, a gripping novel of betrayal. author fun facts Born: May 10 in Geneva, New York Education: Greenwich, CT schools and various colleges Residence: Westbrook, CT Children: Louisa, Sayre (rhymes with fair), Harold Inspiration for writing: I love a good story. I love to make things up. Favorite. . . hobbies: I read a lot. I buy books. I’m in a library (I use several) or a bookstore almost every day because I have to be around other people’s books, too. I sing in several choirs, or play the piano for them. . . . foods: I’m omnivorous. . . . books: I read series books: Cherry Ames, Student Nurse, was the reason I went to nursing school. But my favorite series, and the only one I saved, was Magic by the Lake by Edward Eager.
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