A review by snugshelf
Rules of the Road by Joan Bauer

4.0

Joan Bauer has a way of writing about normal people doing normal jobs and things, and making it so interesting. Things like pumpkin farming, waitressing, school news reporting. Normal kids struggling with normal things, everything from being too tall, weight issues, family problems, lack of confidence. She makes it all so interesting and the people so easy to love. There's nothing all that different about them. She just shows you the good things about normal people, and what they can do.

A lot of the things in this book really hit him for me, like the absent, alcoholic father and grandmother with Alzheimer's, as I've had both. These issues are expressed so simply and truly though, it seems like the author's been through them herself.

I loved the kind of grand finale of the book. The "bad guy," being put in his place is always a good part of any book. And I love the "guy I almost knocked over."

Also, any author who kinda makes me want to be a shoe salesman is good in my book.