Driver's Ed

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Summary: Driver's Ed
Review: Driver's Ed by Caroline B. Cooney started out as a fairly boring book. Remy is a high school student starting driver's education class. She is very eager to get her license and always wants to drive. Later on in the story, Remy, Morgan (Remy's dream boyfriend), Lark (Remy's best friend), and Nickie (the only one of the four with a license) all play a "game" where each one of them steals a street sign. On the night it all happens, Lark backs out because her mother becomes sick. They go on with it anyway and steal two road signs and a stop sign. Soon after, a horrible accident happens in the same place that the stop sign was stolen. Now Remy and Morgan either confess to the crime they committed or live with the horrible guilt of someone dying because of them.
I enjoyed this book because it was very suspenseful and the words that Cooney used made me want to keep reading. On a scale of one to ten, I would rate this book a solid eight.


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Summary: Driver's Ed
Review: Driver's Ed by Caroline B. Cooney is an excellent teen book. It's about three kids getting through their high school years. Remy,Morgan and Nickie are three kids that get into some serious trouble when they decided to participate in a class game. Remy and Morgan are in drivers ed class, just learning the basics of the road. One day one of the kids in the class says that everyone should take a street sign as a drivers ed game. Remy, Lark (Remys best friend), Morgan (Remys dream boyfriend) and Nickie (the only one of the four with a license and a car) decide to take on the game. On the night the four plan on taking the signs Lark says her mom is getting the flu and she has to take care of her, but asks the other three to pick up the street sign Thickly Settled for her. The three teens get a Morgan Road, Thickly Settled and a stop sign. This was all just harmless fun until a horrible, very horrible thing happens and they have to try and deal with the guilt of commiting a serious crime and trying to hide it, what else could they do?

I throughly enjoyed this book. I could really relate (being a high school student myself) to the pressure of school and trying to fit in as the characters in the book did. I thought Caroline B. Cooney did a great job making the book realistic. This book keeps you on the edge of your seat the whole time and keeps you wanting to turn the page. I would recommend this book to anyone who likes suspensful novels and realistic writing.

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Summary: Good--But Not Cooney's Best
Review: I just finish reading this book a few minutes ago and I must say that it was good. However, it was not Cooney's best but I think that it had a good moral and a good ending. I really wish there was a sequel, but unfortunately there isn't.
This book is basically about a girl named Remy who falls in love with a guy named Morgan (which happens to be my first name) and they start talking and then, along with this guy named Nickie they steal a stop sign. It's not long after when they see that someone was killed at the same place where they stole the stop sign. It's really devastating for them and they don't know if they should tell or not. Eventually they do and Nickie, the one who picked out the sign and drove them to the sign denies ever even being a part of the situation. Once Morgan and Remy have told on themselves, the husband of the lady killed gets real mad and starts talking about how he wants to kill them. The end ends strangely but I think it was good. The only thing that made me mad was that Nickie never go caught and Morgan's mom, Mrs. Campbell was so evil.
Overall, I think you should read the book. It's a good lesson on responsibility and love.

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Summary: Original and thought-provoking
Review: Drivers Ed: It's a fun teen book, especially for those drivers-in-training. Like all Cooney's works, this book describes teenage life perfectly in a witty, sensational way. The characters are likeable, even those you love to hate. It's also a rather sad story, not quite tear-jerking in my experience, but the lump-in-your-throat kind. It makes you think, to remember why things are the way they are, and to understand how one little mistake can blow up severely. A four-to-five star book, I would say, having read it three times. The only complaint I have is that I would have liked to see more of Remy and Morgan's romance, but considering the circumstances of the book, I understand why she wrote it the way she did.

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Summary: Cooney delivers another borefest
Review: After reading this book, i was ready to pay someone to kill me. I mean seriously, the book does nothing. It's a waste of paper. In most of Cooney's books, this is what happens: the first 2-3 pages are exciting, the other 150 pages the character sits and thinks, then on the last page you find out who the murderer was. Driver's ed is the exception. I never picks up. Teens steal stop sign. They feel bad. They tell on themselves. Will someone please tell me why Cooney needed 160 pages to say that?