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.

© Jane Feldman
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 Voice on the Radio (each of them an ALA Best Book for Young Adults), as well as What Janie FoundWhat Child Is This? (an ALA Best Book for Young Adults); Driver’s Ed (an ALA Best Book for Young Adults and a Booklist Editors’ Choice); Among FriendsTwenty Pageants Later; and the Time Travel Quartet. She lives in Westbrook, Connecticut. View titles by Caroline B. Cooney
  • WINNER | 1997
    New Jersey Garden State Children's Book Award
  • WINNER | 1997
    Pacific Northwest Young Readers Choice Award
  • WINNER | 1997
    Tennessee Volunteer State Book Award
  • WINNER | 1997
    Washington Evergreen Young Adult Book Award
  • WINNER | 1996
    Texas Lone Star Reading List
  • WINNER | 1995
    ALA Best Books for Young Adults
“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

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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.

Author

© Jane Feldman
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 Voice on the Radio (each of them an ALA Best Book for Young Adults), as well as What Janie FoundWhat Child Is This? (an ALA Best Book for Young Adults); Driver’s Ed (an ALA Best Book for Young Adults and a Booklist Editors’ Choice); Among FriendsTwenty Pageants Later; and the Time Travel Quartet. She lives in Westbrook, Connecticut. View titles by Caroline B. Cooney

Awards

  • WINNER | 1997
    New Jersey Garden State Children's Book Award
  • WINNER | 1997
    Pacific Northwest Young Readers Choice Award
  • WINNER | 1997
    Tennessee Volunteer State Book Award
  • WINNER | 1997
    Washington Evergreen Young Adult Book Award
  • WINNER | 1996
    Texas Lone Star Reading List
  • WINNER | 1995
    ALA Best Books for Young Adults

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

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