04/12/2014 Book 3 DRIVER’S EDThis book starts being more and more interesting over time for several reasons. First when the book starts it gives you no information about people in the book. The only information it gives is that Remy Marland is a girl and has pale blue jeans. One of the first sentences of the book says that “she crossed her fingers and prayed to the God of Driver Education that she would get to drive today”. This is the day where Remy, Christine, and Morgan were going to drive will it be successful?This book has a lot of suspense for several reasons. First, it has suspense to know that is 15-16 year old boy and girl are going to drive in the road. Luckily it’s an automatic. Mr. Fielding is the driver education instructor. He talks a lot about how people has weird names today. For example the four ways of writing Christine. These were the reasons why I like my independent reading book.11/12/2014Book 3DRIVER’S EDThis independent reading book is very interesting for several reasons. The first reason why this book is interesting is because it is a real life situation. Remy Marland is in the car with her friends which are learning how to drive. She drives well until she nearly made an accident and then landed up in cemented area. Second, it is interesting because the writer explains well that the people in the car are choked. For example, they are still afraid even though the action already past. These were the reason why this independent reading book is interesting.The book Driver’s ED is interesting for several reasons. First this book gives a lot of suspense in a weird way. In a weird way because after the accident they kind of forget it like if it was nothing and just completely changed the setting. Second, the front page is well design. It is clear and simple to understand the front page because a “STOP” sign is on the ground; it kind of spoils the beginning of the book because that’s why they got the accident. These were the reasons why I like my Independent reading book.11/12/2014Book 3 – Week 3DRIVER’S ED Paragraph 1: This book starts getting boring for several reasons. First of all, there is too much of unnecessary details. For example, there are still no problems in the story. The characters just talk about things that they are learning during driving class which is boring. Secondly, this book is not interesting because it is so boring. It is so boring because it talks about so many characters that at the end we don’t even know who is who! These were the reasons why I found this book extremely boring. Paragraph2: One rating star will be taken away from this book for several reasons. The first reason is, logically because it is a bad book. It is a bad book because even though it is long they don’t tell you the personality of the character and how he looks like. It is important to now so we can easily understand the book. The second reason why we don’t understand the book is because many characters talk to other new characters that we don’t know yet. For example, “Nickie was a year older” a year older than who?! These were the reasons why one star is taken off from that book.08/01/2015Book 3 Week 4DRIVER’S EDParagraph 1tI will be adding one star to this book because of many reasons. First, there was rarely suspense till the end of the book. Remy and Morgan were in love they stole a sign and caused a young woman to die. Second, the husband of the woman who died wanted revenge. He wanted a serious revenge by thinking that the person should get shot. These were the reasons why this book will have one more star.Paragraph 2tThis independent reading book is fun for several reasons. First, this book makes you stress. It makes you stress because you don’t know what will happen to Remy, Morgan, and Nickie. Second, Nickie doesn’t care that someone died because he had the idea of taking this sign, but Remy and Morgan think of the consequences. These were the reasons why this book is fun, and why people should get it.
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. The incident leaving behind her 2-year-old son Bobby and her husband who loved her with all his heart heavily impact Denise Thompson’s family. 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.
Do You like book Driver's Ed (1996)?
This may have been the first Cooney book I read, and it initiated this whole binge on her books. I remember loving it. This, along with Emergency Room and Flight #116 is Down are probably my favorite books written by her. They are definitely not a great literary acheivement, but they are great for the older middle grade readers who need something a little older than Sarah, Plain and Tall but aren't quite ready for a lot of heavy reading (Crime and Punishment...). These books display childhood angst and emotion well in a way that teens can relate to and understand without being to explicit, complicated, or overwhelming. I never felt that the author was trying to force anything at us, to me it was simply a story that had characters I could relate to and empathize with, whether I had ever experienced that situation or not.
—Ashley
Not a good read. The beginning was nice but then it turned into some depressing teen tragedy. The only think I kind of liked was the writing style, and I still skipped paragraphs. This is the first book I've read by this author, and I am still trying to keep an open mind that the rest aren't as bad as this one. It was well written, but had I known this was what it was going to be like--funny at first then a stupid accident, then people feeling sorry for themselves--I would never have picked it u
—Fiona P.
The book that I read is called " driver's ed," the author of the book is Caroline B. Cooney, she ends up finding a secret about something that she's not supposed to know about and the Mac wants to eliminate her. the length of the book is one hundred and ninety nine pages long, There was no illustrations in my book. The book that I read was a fiction book. The book is about this girl named Morgan she's the main character of the book and she cant wait to turn sixteen and be able to drive. Another book that Caroline B. Cooney has written is called The Voice in the radio which is about a girl named Janie who listens to a voice on the radio because she has to face her past and her future. This book is not relevant to me because I am not a girl who is nervous to get her license, this book would be good for anyone who thinks that they wont pass there drivers test. I didn't like this book because it honestly did not make much since to me it confused me page after page. The setting of the book is mostly in a class room talking about the teacher. This book does not keep you interested the first couple of pages but after the first couple paragraphs but after words it gets good. The character in this book does and does not seem real to me because I can believe some things but others I cant. The author did provide a good conclusion to the book. My resources are Robert Cormier, Author of the chocolate war, Entertainment weekly, publishers weekly, booklist.
—Tripp Cappelli
